Basic Approach to Environmental Management

Basic Approach (Environmental Management)

Corporate management that is in harmony with the global environment plays an important role in achieving sustainable progress for business and society. Limiting the resource and energy consumption as well as environmental burden associated with business activities throughout the lifecycles of our products, the Hitachi High-Tech Group not only reduces the environmental burden in our business area but also engages in green procurement and provides eco-friendly products and services. We engage in sustainable consumption and manufacturing through these and other such efforts. In addition, we aim to achieve the shared long-term environmental targets of the Hitachi Group, Hitachi Environmental Innovation 2050, and to resolve the areas of Sustainability Focus Areas (Materiality) for our group by realizing decarbonization, circular economy, and nature positive. We are promoting various initiatives such as reducing Environmental burdens like GHG emissions and waste generation, strengthening legal compliance and chemical substance management, eco-design, life cycle assessment, and biodiversity, in conjunction with the ISO14001 environmental management system.

Hitachi High-Tech's Targeted Direction

Our Group takes the view that it is thanks to the global environment that a sound society and business are even possible. Therefore we consider the resolution of environmental problems to be of the utmost importance, and we also place importance on developing business for the purpose of "solving social problems." To this end, our Group has established "Contributing to a sustainable global environment" as a key component of the Sustainability Focus Areas(Materiality) that was formulated in May 2018.
We are focusing on the impact from climate change as a global environmental challenge, and promoting activities linked to our business processes that give top priority to reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
To suppress GHG emissions, it is especially necessary to reduce energy-related emissions; however, as the scale of our business expands, emissions tend to increase. Restricting emissions of GHG, the principal greenhouse gas, involves reducing energy usage, but any expansion in business scale tends to increase emissions. We are addressing this situation by promoting the switch to decarbonized options (such as renewable energy) for the electric power used at each of our sites, by production process reforms, and by capital investment for facility rationalization in order to improve energy efficiency. We are also targeting opportunities to expand our business by supplying eco-friendly products based on new product development processes built around the principles of eco-design and life cycle assessment. This contributes to reduced GHG emissions through the value chain by helping customers to cut energy consumption at the product usage stage and so forth.
In 2020, Hitachi, Ltd. declared Hitachi Carbon Neutrality 2030 to help accelerate achievement of the Hitachi Environmental Innovation 2050 goals. While continuing our previous activities, our group aims to achieve carbon neutrality at all business sites by fiscal 2027.
We are also working to realize a circular economy through the effective use of water and resources, and to achieve nature positive by minimizing negative impacts from chemical substance emissions and maximizing positive impacts such as biodiversity conservation.

We have been instituting measures to support TCFD since we began studies of it in FY2018. We established a working group (the TCFD Study Group) under the Sustainability Promotion Committee in November 2020. The Study Group conducted scenario analysis (identification of specific climate change risks and opportunities, consideration of measures to address them, etc.) for each of the Hitachi High-Tech Group's businesses. We will continue actively promoting specific initiatives for management strategy and risk management addressing climate-related risks, in particular.
We will disclose climate-related information obtained from these efforts in accordance with the TCFD recommendations. In engaging in disclosure as a member of the Hitachi Group, which supported the recommendations by TCFD, we will also coordinate with Hitachi, Ltd., our parent company, in our efforts to achieve substantial disclosure.

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