Contribute to the Environment Through Our Business
The most profound risk to our business continuity comes from global environmental issues such as climate change and threats to biodiversity, but at the same time, we recognize that solving such issues also presents business opportunities for us. We at the Daifuku Group will strive to realize our Daifuku Environmental Vision 2050, and we will strengthen our environmental initiatives across the Group under the leadership of the top management.
Related Sustainable Development Goals and Targets
The following are the materialities and their related Sustainable Development Goals and Targets for one theme of the Sustainability Action Plan: Contribute to the Environment Through Our Business.
| Materiality | Goal | Target | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Keep business operations environmentally friendly | 6. Clean water and sanitation | 6.3 | By 2030, improve water quality by reducing pollution, eliminating dumping and minimizing release of hazardous chemicals and materials, halving the proportion of untreated wastewater and substantially increasing recycling and safe reuse globally |
| 7. Affordable and clean energy | 7.2 | By 2030, increase substantially the share of renewable energy in the global energy mix | |
| 7.3 | By 2030, double the global rate of improvement in energy efficiency | ||
| 12. Responsible consumption and production | 12.2 | By 2030, achieve the sustainable management and efficient use of natural resources | |
| 13. Climate action | 13.2 | Integrate climate change measures into national policies, strategies and planning | |
| 13.3 | Improve education, awareness-raising and human and institutional capacity on climate change mitigation, adaptation, impact reduction and early warning | ||
| Expand environmentally friendly products and services | 7. Affordable and clean energy | 7.3 | By 2030, double the global rate of improvement in energy efficiency |
| 9. Industry innovation and infrastructure | 9.4 | By 2030, upgrade infrastructure and retrofit industries to make them sustainable, with increased resource-use efficiency and greater adoption of clean and environmentally sound technologies and industrial processes, with all countries taking action in accordance with their respective capabilities | |
| 12. Responsible consumption and production | 12.4 | By 2020, achieve the environmentally sound management of chemicals and all wastes throughout their life cycle, in accordance with agreed international frameworks, and significantly reduce their release to air, water and soil in order to minimize their adverse impacts on human health and the environment | |
FY2022 Achievements
The following are our fiscal 2022 achievements in each of the materialities for the above theme of the Sustainability Action Plan, Contribute to the Environment Through Our Business.
Sustainability Action Plan (PDF: 763KB)
FY2021-FY2022 Achievements of the Sustainability Action Plan (PDF: 333KB)
Keep business operations environmentally friendly
The target for Daifuku’s total CO2 emissions reduction rate was achieved mainly through energy conservation efforts and progress in the introduction of renewable energy. Going forward, under the Daifuku Environmental Vision 2050 revised in May 2023, we will further strengthen our collaboration with customers and suppliers and work to reduce CO2 emissions throughout the supply chain. We achieved our targets for waste recycling rates at our domestic sites, but we fell short of our targets at sites outside of Japan.
Pollution Prevention and Resource Recycling
| KPIs | Scope | FY2022 targets | FY2022 results |
|---|---|---|---|
| Daifuku's total CO2 emissions reduction rate (compared to FY2018) |
Global | 5% reduction | 34% reduction |
| Participation rate in CO2 emissions reduction programs* throughout the supply chain | Japan | 34% | Target was achieved in fiscal 2021 (36%); began considerations for a review of the system |
| Recycling rate of waste | Global | 99% | 95% |
- *Daifuku's own framework on efforts (sharing of goals and supporting measures to reduce emissions, etc.) to reduce CO2 emissions at suppliers
Expand environmentally friendly products and services
We achieved our targets for avoided CO2 emissions as well as for the sales ratio of environmentally friendly properties, and from fiscal 2023 onward we will set targets for reducing CO2 emissions from the use of our products and manage our progress. The recyclability rate of new products fell short of 90% in some business units, and the targets were not achieved on average across the board.
Environmentally Friendly Products and Services
| KPIs | Scope | FY2022 targets | FY2022 results |
|---|---|---|---|
| Avoided CO2 emissions*1 | Global | 60,000t-CO2 | 121,356t-CO2 |
| Sales ratio of environmentally friendly properties*2 | 46% | 72% | |
| Recyclability rate for new products | 90% | 86% |
- *1CO2 emissions produced from our products and services are subtracted from the CO2 emissions produced from our products and services in FY2011, the base year for environmental performance.
- *2Projects that have contributed to customers in terms of environmental consideration through certified Daifuku Eco-Products, etc.
Changes in targets for fiscal 2023
In accordance with the revision of the Daifuku Environmental Vision 2050, the KPIs and targets for fiscal 2023 for “Contribute to the Environment Through Our Business,” a theme in the Sustainability Action Plan, have been changed.
Daifuku Environmental Vision 2050
| Crucial issue areas | Key Performance Indicators | FY2023 Targets |
|---|---|---|
| Addressing Climate Change | Daifuku CO2 emissions (Scopes 1 + 2) |
21.0% reduction (compared to FY2018) |
| CO2 emissions from purchased goods and services (Scope 3 Category 1) |
Begin operations of CO2 emission reduction programs throughout the supply chain | |
| CO2 emissions from the use of sold products (Scope 3 Category 11) |
12.5% reduction (compared to FY2018) |
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| Promoting Resource Recycling | Landfill disposal rate | Japan: less than 1% Global: less than 5% |
| Water use intensity*1 | 12.5% reduction (compared to FY2018) |
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| Coexisting with Nature | Rate of implementation of biodiversity conservation activities at major sites*2 |
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| Sustainability Action*3 total annual number of participants | 12,000 people |
- *1Water consumption (1,000 m3) divided by net sales (100 million yen)
- *2Sites with 100 or more employees
- *3Daifuku’s unique program for sustainability awareness and training among employees