Summary of FY2024 Environmental Activities and Environmental Action Plan for FY2025-2027
The Environmental Action Plan is made up of implementation headings that apply in common to the Hitachi Group. The Hitachi High-Tech Group has added its own action headings to that plan and is promoting them.
The plan results for FY2024 and the plan for FY 2025-2027 are as shown below.
Summary of FY2024 Environmental Activities
Decarbonized Society
Contribution by Products and Services
| Activity Targets | Activities for Promotion | FY2024 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Targets | Results | Evaluation | ||
| Reduction in CO2 emissions by products and services | Reduction in CO2 emissions by environmentally conscious design during product development (base fiscal year: FY2010) |
Amount reduced 96,222 t-CO2 or more |
Amount reduced 90,236 t-CO2 |
-* |
| Raise rate of reduction of CO2 emissions by products (base fiscal year: FY2010) |
34.5% or more | 39.0% | 〇 | |
| Reduction in total CO2 emissions by products and services (base fiscal year: FY2010) |
Emissions 688,224 t-CO2 or less |
580,992 t-CO2 | - | |
| Implementation of environmentally conscious design assessments | Conduct environmentally conscious design assessments (assessments conducted during the year/assessments subjected to during the year) *Includes conducting LCA evaluations |
100% | 100% | 〇 |
* For those items with a hyphen ( - ), the results are determined only as monitoring items.
Contributions from Factories and Offices
| Activity Targets | Activity for Promotion | FY2024 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Targets | Results | Evaluation | ||
| Reduction in CO2 emissions by business establishments | Reduction of CO2 emissions | Total emissions 17,660 t-CO2 or less |
Total emissions 17,011 t-CO2 |
〇 |
| [Unique to Hitachi High-Tech Group] Improve rate of introduction of renewable energy, etc. | 64.6% or more | 63.0% | -* | |
| Switch to electric power for vehicles | Consider switching to electric (EV) when updating vehicles | Monitoring the number of electric vehicles | -* | |
| Reduction of CO2 in transportation | Grasp transportation energy per unit in nominal production | Monitor transportation energy per unit | -* | |
* For those items with a hyphen ( - ), the results are determined only as monitoring items.
Recycling-Oriented Society
Creation of a Resource-Recycling Oriented Society
| Activity Targets | Activities for Promotion | FY2024 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Targets | Results | Evaluation | ||
| Improvement of efficiency in the use of resources | Improvement of waste generation per unit (compared to FY2010) | 30.1% or more | 44.5% | 〇 |
| Improvement of rate of effective use of plastic waste | 99.8% or more | 99.9% | 〇 | |
| Transition to circular economy | Reduce use of virgin materials and create resource recycling businesses by promoting "5 R's*1" |
|
-*2 | |
| Reduction in waste material | Reduction of rate of landfill disposal of waste | 0.07% or less | 0.03% | -*2 |
*1 Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Repair, Rethink
*2 For those items with a hyphen ( - ), the results are determined only as monitoring items.
Creation of a Water-Recycling Oriented Society
| Activity Targets | Activities for Promotion | FY2024 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Targets | Results | Evaluation | ||
| Improvement of efficiency in the use of water | Improvement of water consumption per unit (compared to FY2010) | 61.8% or more | 67.4% | 〇 |
Society in Harmony with Nature
Management of Chemical Substances
| Activity Targets | Activities for Promotion | FY2024 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Targets | Results | Evaluation | ||
| Reduction in emissions of chemical substances | Reduction in atmospheric emissions of chemical substances per unit (compared to FY2010) | 58.6% or more | 66.7% | 〇 |
Ecosystem Conservation
| Activity Targets | Activities for Promotion | FY2024 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Targets | Results | Evaluation | ||
| Contribution to ecosystem conservation | Promotion of activities contributing to positive impact | Number of activities implemented 68 |
Number of activities implemented 75 |
-* |
* For those items with a hyphen ( - ), the results are determined only as monitoring items.
Environmental Action Plan for FY2025-2027
Governance
Strengthening environmental management
| Activity Targets | Activities for Promotion | FY2025 Targets | FY2026 Targets | FY2027 Targets |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Strengthen global environmental management | Reduction of regulatory compliance risks based on internal environmental audits and product chemical substance risk assessments | Manufacturing sites: Compliance audit Sales & service sites: Risk assessment |
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Decarbonization
- Net Zero -
Contribution by Products and Services
| Activity Targets | Activities for Promotion | FY2025 Targets | FY2026 Targets | FY2027 Targets |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in products and services | Greenhouse gas emissions-reduction through environmentally conscious design during product development | Emissions-reduction contribution: 49,581 t-CO2 or more |
Emissions-reduction contribution: 63,996 t-CO2 or more |
Emissions-reduction contribution: 73,655 t-CO2 or more |
| Improvement in product-based greenhouse gas emissions-reduction per unit (Base year: FY2022) | 27.5% or more |
41.6% or more |
65.6% or more |
Contributions by Factories and Offices
| Activity Targets | Activities for Promotion | FY2025 Targets | FY2026 Targets | FY2027 Targets |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reduction of greenhouse gas emissions at business sites | Reduction of total greenhouse gas emissions | Emissions 21,700 t-CO2 or less |
Emissions 17,308 t-CO2 or less |
Emissions 0 t-CO2 |
| Improvement in greenhouse gas emissions-reduction rate (compared to FY2019) | 61% or more | 69% or more | 100% | |
| Reduction of greenhouse gas emissions through energy conservation and introduction of renewable energy facilities (compared to FY2019) | 9% or more | 10% or more | 12% or more | |
| Reduction in Scope 1 credit purchases | Limit the purchasing ratio to 17% or less of the total by FY2030 | |||
| Reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in the value chain | Formulation of emissions-reduction plans by procurement partners | 40 companies or more | 55 companies or more | 80 companies or more |
| Confirmation of transportation energy use | Assessment of greenhouse gas emissions from transportation energy use | |||
Circular Economy
- Circular Transformation -
Creation of a Resource-Recycling Oriented Society
| Activity Targets | Activities for Promotion | FY2025 Targets | FY2026 Targets | FY2027 Targets |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Improvement of resource use efficiency at business sites | Reduction of waste-to-landfill rate | 2% or less | 1.9% or less | 1.9% or less |
| Improvement of rate of effective use of plastic waste | 91% or more | 92% or more | 93% or more | |
| Promotion of eco-design in products and services | Environmentally conscious design assessment and LCA for new product development (LCA implementation for all products shipped for Europe) | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| Increase in the usage rate of recyclable materials in targeted products | 95% | 95% | 100% | |
| Increase in the usage rate (by weight) of environmentally conscious materials (such as recycled plastics) in targeted products | 20% | 20% | 30% |
Nature Positive - Nature Resilience -
Contribution to Biodiversity Conservation
| Activity Targets | Activities for Promotion | FY2025 Targets | FY2026 Targets | FY2027 Targets |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Promotion of Biodiversity Conservation Activity | Improvement of water consumption per unit (compared to FY2019) |
13.6％ or more | 13.8％ or more | 14.9％ or more |
| Reduction in water usage at manufacturing sites in water-stressed areas (year on year) | Detailed survey of actual conditions | Formulation of reduction plans | -2.9% | |
| Verification of water consumption and wastewater conditions | Understanding of water consumption and wastewater volume | |||
| Promotion of ecosystem conservation activity items | Understanding of implementation numbers | |||
Management of Chemical Substances
| Activity Targets | Activities for Promotion | FY2025 Targets | FY2026 Targets | FY2027 Targets |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reduction of chemical substance risks | Verification of chemical substance use and air emissions | Understanding the amount of chemical substance use and air emissions | ||
Growth through environmental business
Environmental business
| Activity Targets | Activities for Promotion | FY2025 Targets | FY2026 Targets | FY2027 Targets |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Expansion of GX sales in products and services | Annual sales expansion of products, services, and solutions that contribute to GX | ¥104,404 million or more | ¥113,085 million or more | ¥136,212 million or more |