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JSR Group contributes to climate change mitigation by reducing its consumption of necessary energy and greenhouse gas emissions in various product production and supply processes.
JSR's Responsible Care Committee adopted a "Medium-Term Environmental and Chemical Management Plan." This plan contains per-unit targets for energy reduction, which serve as measures to help prevent global warming. In order to reach these targets, JSR is engaged in "TSC Plus" cost-reduction activities targeted at reducing energy and resource use. The change in our per-unit energy consumption in FY2017 was 0.7%, which fell short of our per-unit energy reduction target. Nonetheless, JSR remains committed to energy conservation activities and will continue to work toward reducing energy consumption.
Amid a global trend whereby businesses are managing greenhouse gases indirectly emitted from their supply chains and disclosing their emissions, JSR Group has launched initiatives to calculate and ascertain emissions and reduce emissions based on the Basic Guidelines on Accounting for Greenhouse Gas Emissions Throughout the Supply Chain issued by Ministry of the Environment, Government of Japan.
Category | Boundary | FY2016 emissions | FY2017 emissions | ||
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CO2 (t) |
Percentage (%) |
CO2 (t) |
Percentage (%) |
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Ⅰ. Direct emissions
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JSR Group | 500,532 | 22.9 | 458,843 | 20.8 |
Ⅱ. Energy-derived indirect emissions |
915,473 | 41.9 | 977,662 | 44.2 | |
Ⅲ. Other indirect emissions |
771,050 | 35.5 | 774,232 | 35.0 | |
Ⅰ. Direct emissions |
JSR | 397,252 | 28.2 | 382,808 | 27.3 |
Ⅱ. Energy-derived indirect emissions |
260,455 | 18.5 | 269,766 | 19.2 | |
Ⅲ. Other indirect emissions |
749,048 | 53.2 | 750,414 | 53.5 | |
Ⅰ. Direct emissions |
Domestic Group companies | 94,251 | 30.9 | 66,970 | 24.0 |
Ⅱ. Energy-derived indirect emissions |
200,558 | 65.8 | 201,172 | 72.0 | |
Ⅲ. Other indirect emissions |
10,179 | 3.3 | 11,233 | 4.0 | |
Ⅰ. Direct emissions |
Overseas Group companies | 9,029 | 1.9 | 9,065 | 1.7 |
Ⅱ. Energy-derived indirect emissions |
454,460 | 95.6 | 506,724 | 95.9 | |
Ⅲ. Other indirect emissions |
11,823 | 2.5 | 12,585 | 2.4 |
JSR is endeavoring to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions through various energy saving activities under the Medium-Term Environmental and Chemical Management Plan.
Promotion of CO2 reductions with attention to government goals
In FY2012, JSR established its "System to Reduce Total CO2 Emissions from Three plants by 6% Compared to FY1990" by upgrading its energy-saving technologies through the introduction of fuel conversion at the Kashima Plant (Kashima South Joint Power Corporation) and a sludge dewatering system at the Yokkaichi Plant. In FY2017, JSR successfully reduced CO2 emissions by approximately 9% over FY1990 levels.
Natural gas-fired turbine cogeneration system (Yokkaichi Plant)
The Yokkaichi Plant installed a natural gas-fired turbine cogeneration system in April 2010. By using natural gas instead of coal, a heavy oil-fired steam boiler and condensing steam turbine system, this new system helped us to cut CO2 emissions by approximately 35,000 tons in FY2017.
Sludge dryer system (Yokkaichi Plant)
In FY2012 a sludge drying system was adopted at the Yokkaichi Plant in order to dry the sludge generated from its general wastewater treatment facility. Previously, sludge containing a high percentage of water was burned with combustion support fuel (heavy oil); but drying allows us to use the sludge itself as fuel, which in turn allows us to reduce the amount of combustion support fuel we use. This led to a reduction in CO2 emissions of approximately 1,600 tons in FY2017.
8% reduction compared to the average power consumption from the base years of FY2009 and FY2010
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government requires major tenants of a building occupying 5,000 square meters or more in floor area or consuming six million kWh or more of electricity annually to reduce its CO2 emissions under the Tokyo Metropolitan Ordinance on Environmental Preservation.
Although we are not subject to this obligation, we are promoting energy conservation on our own initiative by voluntarily setting a specific power saving target.
In FY2017, as a result of these efforts, our power consumption decreased by 21% over the average consumption of the base years.
As part of our environmental efforts in transportation, we have taken steps to reduce our transport energy use as a designated shipper under the amended Energy Conservation Act. We are working to reduce per-unit transport energy by switching to large-scale transport and making a modal shift from road to rail and water transport.
In FY2017, as a result of policies to transport goods and raw materials by railway and ship, we achieved a modal share of approximately 86%, thus maintaining last year's high level, and successfully held down per-unit transportation energy.
FY | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 |
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Transport volume (million ton-kilometers*3) | 492 | 523 | 511 | 562 | 534 |
Rail/Sea transport ratio (%) | 83 | 85 | 86 | 87 | 86 |
Energy consumption level (kiloliters: converted to crude oil) | 9,026 | 9,388 | 9,112 | 9,898 | 9,899 |
Energy per-unit (kiloliters/1,000 ton-kilometers) | 0.0184 | 0.0180 | 0.0178 | 0.0176 | 0.0178 |
CO2 emission level (tons) | 22,960 | 23,984 | 23,333 | 25,495 | 24,437 |
- Transportation and delivery of raw materials and other materials (tons) | 10,489 | 12,028 | 12,172 | 14,133 | 13,177 |
- Transportation of waste from plants (tons) | 164 | 186 | 245 | 206 | 195 |
- Transportation and delivery of products (tons) | 12,307 | 11,770 | 10,916 | 11,156 | 11,065 |
*3 Ton-kilometer: Freight Tonnage (Ton) x Transport Distance (km)
JSR Micro NV lends bicycles to 96 employees to help reduce CO2 emissions during commuting. The "1K Kyoto Project"* is a campaign that has been continuing since 2005. It is designed to encourage employees to commute using sustainable energy. During FY2017, the project achieved a 9,596 kg reduction in CO2 emissions.
* 1K Kyoto Project
An initiative that was started by a local government in Belgium. It takes its name from the Kyoto Protocol.