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Overview of Environmental Initiatives and Environmental Impact

1. Our Environmental Initiative

(1) Philosophy

JSR Group recognizes that it is our duty to contribute to the realization of a sustainable global environment and society as a company which handles chemical substances.
Therefore, we consider reducing the environmental impact arising from our business activities and appropriately managing chemical substances to be priority issues. Accordingly, we are striving to reduce GHG* emissions and to appropriately manage waste. In particular, it is expected that climate change will have a big impact on our business due to the risks from an increase in natural disasters and environmental regulations. Therefore, we are working to reduce GHG emissions as a mid- to long-term management issue.

*GHG: greenhouse gas

(2) Promotion Structure

JSR Group formulates environmental targets under our basic policy of responsible care to promote environmental activities integrated with our management. The Environmental Supervisory Department drafts the environmental targets. The Environment, Safety and Quality Committee chaired by the Officer in charge of Environment, Safety and Quality then deliberates and approves those targets. After that, the committee reports the targets to the Sustainability Promotion Committee.

(3) Various Initiatives

2. Overall Picture of our Environmental Impact: Input to Output

JSR Group strives to comprehensively and efficiently reduce its environmental impact by quantitively ascertaining and closely analyzing its consumption of energy and resources in its business activities (input) as well as its product production, emissions into the environment, waste production, and other data (output).
The chart provides an overview of JSR Group’s environmental impact (material balance) in FY2023. It presents a total for each of the three items of raw materials consumption, energy consumption and water consumption as input and each of the five items of total product production, waste production, amount sent to final off-site landfills, GHG emissions, and wastewater production as output.

Graph of Overall Picture of our Environmental Impact