Initiatives Aimed at Preventing Global Warming

Energy Consumption

JSR's Responsible Care Committee adopted a Medium-Term Voluntary Environmental Preservation Plan. This plan sets two targets for reducing energy use as measures to prevent global warming. To achieve these goals, the Company is carrying out the Efficiency 100% (E-100) project at all group companies with the aim of reducing energy and resource usage. In FY2009 (April 1, 2008 to March 31, 2009), production volumes declined, and as a result we were not able to achieve an annual 1% average reduction in energy use per unit of production, but we will continue to examine this in the future and work to cut energy use.

1  Law Concerning the Rational Use of Energy

Amount of CO₂ Generated

In February 2005, with release of the Kyoto Protocol, Japan was required to reduce the volume of green house gases by 6% in the five-year period from 2008 to 2012 using FY1991 as the standard. As a member of the Japan Chemical Industry Association (JCIA), JSR has been promoting measures to reduce CO₂ emissions volumes through energy saving in keeping with those directives. CO₂ emissions trading began on a trial basis in October 2008, and JSR is participating in the trading. As a part of this process, a reduction target for the absolute volume of CO₂ emissions was set. Going forward, we will accumulate experience and gather information concerning emissions trading and continue our investigation to achieve this target.

We also began encouraging employees to save energy at their homes in April 2008. Approximately 2,400 employees are participating in this program, and as a result of continuous implementation of possible energy saving at each home, CO₂ emissions have been reduced by about 1,000 tons annually.⁵

5  Data is based on calculations using the My Challenge Sheet from the Japan Chemical Industry Association.

Logistics Environmental Policy

Improving Transport Efficiency

JSR promotes epochal energy-saving measures as a specially designated shipper, to reduce CO₂ emission upon product transport, according to the Energy Conservation Law revised in FY2007. As a result, larger lorries, along with a shift to rail/sea transport is being undertaken, and that ratio now accounts for 84% of all JSR transported freight (ton-kilometer⁶).
The transport energy consumption unit in FY2009 decreased 5.2% over FY2008, with a CO₂ emission reduced by approximately 3,300 tons compared to FY2008.

6  Ton-kilometer: Freight Tonnage × Transport Distance (km)

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