From home appliances that brighten our lives to artificial satellites that observe the Earth.

For over half a century, Mitsubishi Electric Room Air Conditioner KIRIGAMINE has been delivering comtortable currents of air in Japan and around the world. Its high energy-saving performance is also the reason why it has continued to be popular for such a long time.
The IBUKI-2 satellite observes greenhouse gas concentrations over almost the entire Earth in a six-day period, and this data contributes to international efforts to combat global warming.
Mitsubishi Electric will continue to contribute to the realization of a rich and green society in a wide range of areas.

Renovation Business Promoting the Effective Use of Existing Properties in Cities in Japan and Overseas

Amid a growing number of aging and deteriorating buildings in Japan, the Mitsubishi Estate Group is expanding efforts to address issues through renovations by ensuring that Group companies leverage each other's know-how to meet societal demands for the effective use of such buildings, incorporating the perspectives of the consideration for global and local environments and population dynamics in Japan.
In particular, leveraging assets effectively together with developers for use over the long term is ingrained in the DNA of Mitsubishi Jisho Design Inc., which has served as Mitsubishi Estate's in-house design office for much of its 130-year history. The major renovation of the Otemachi Building enabled Mitsubishi Jisho Design to fully demonstrate its capabilities. The building was more than 60 years old, having been completed in 1958. Rather than rebuilding it, Mitsubishi Estate chose to use its original structure and materials with the aim of creating a building to last 100 years. Completion of highly challenging renovation work at a building with tenants that is directly connected to the subway lines of Otemachi Station was achieved in May 2022, thanks to Mitsubishi Jisho Design's design techniques and skills in supervising the work and by consolidating the know-how of all parties involved. In addition to fully refur-bishing the building's infrastructure, the renovation provided added value by creating new networking spaces where people and companies can meet, including the introduction of networking functions throughout the building to enable venture companies and start-ups to interact with one another.
In environmental terms, in addition to achieving a significant reduction in the amount of waste and construction materials compared with developments involving demolition and new construction, the renovation lowered future building management costs by using alkali-resistant, glass fiber reinforced concrete (GFRC), which is more durable and fire resistant than regular concrete, as the principal material for the exterior. In addition, the introduction of LED lighting and the adoption of low-emissivity (low-E) double glazing with superior thermal insulation and window frames with embedded sunshades improved the building's environmental performance, including achieving energy savings from reduced heat load (reduction of approximately 44%).

Initiatives in Improving Disaster Resilience

For Tokio Marine Group, whose home market is Japan, one of the most disaster-prone countries in the world, improving disaster resilience by resolving disaster issues and mitigating damage is a critical area where Tokio Marine Group can show it's value. Tokio Marine Group aims to go beyond merely paying insurance claims in the event of an emergency and transform into a company that supports its customers at all times. We will do this by providing peace of mind before and after an emergency, such as preventing emergencies, reducing stress when an emergency occurs, supporting quick recovery and preventing the recurrence of emergencies.

Related SDG Goals

-Who we are- Peace of mind, forever

Since our founding, we have supported customers and local communities as a pioneer of the life insurance business based on a spirit of mutual aid. Our life insurance is imbued with people’s hopes; a fact that has remained unchanged throughout the years. Our duty is to respond to the hopes each customer has entrusted with us and continuously support them throughout their lives to ensure their health and peace of mind. “Peace of mind, forever.” We take these words to heart and truly value our customers, continuously delivering peace of mind. At the same time, we support each customer’s health improvement as well as the vitalization of regional communities. Expanding the scope of mutual aid, we thus contribute to the creation of a sustainable and hopeful society.

Environmental education

We deem it important to protect the abundant blessing of the natural environment and pass it to the next generation even as we nurture people who will put themselves forward to create a sustainable society. Accordingly, we provide environmental education for children.

Initiatives to protect the natural environment and biodiversity
Meiji Yasuda × J.League “Forest to Weave the Future”

Participants in a tree planting event in Yamanashi Prefecture

As we aim to pass down Japan’s forest—a source of nature’s rich blessings supporting people’s lives—to future generations, we launched forest restoration and maintenance activities through which we act in partnership with J.League. We started out working on forests in two locations (Kanagawa and Yamanashi prefectures), while our plans call for expanding the geographical scope of activities going forward.

Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking Aims for Social Impact

We believe it is important to fully recognize the impact and conditions we bring to the environment and society (social impact) and to continuously improve our operations while developing and providing products and services (social impact-oriented business operations).

Contributing to the maintenance and conservation of the global environment and creating value through our core business

Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking Corporation has identified "Realization of a Carbon-Neutral Society" and "Restoration of Natural Capital and Biodiversity" as priority sustainability issues. We aim to promote industrial transformation (GX) while addressing climate-related risks and environmental conservation.

Waste Reduction

We pursue recycling and reuse through initiatives for waste reduction, including using the collected particulate matter and sludge released from oil refineries as raw materials for cement, and the repeated use of neutralized sludge1 at our smelting and refining facilities. We are also working to reduce our use of raw materials by streamlining production and expanding the use of recyclable materials. JX Advanced Metals uses proprietary smelting and refining technology for the efficient recovery and effective use of copper, precious metals and rare metals from recyclable materials. The company has established a long-term goal of increasing the use of recyclable materials in copper smelting to 50% (ratio in raw materials or ratio contained in products).

1 Material generated by the neutralization reaction in the smelting process.

Pursuit of a Circular Economy

Society is shifting from a linear economy2 based on mass consumption to a circular economy based on resource recycling. A circular economy goes one step further than the 3Rs by considering the environment from the design stage, using maintenance to lengthen product life, and enhancing usage efficiency by incorporating leasing and sharing. The Group is helping to realize a circular economy, and by extension a carbon-neutral society, in the materials and services field by shifting to non-fossil raw materials and developing sharing businesses.

2 An economic system where products flow in a single direction with resources being consumed and disposed without recycling or reuse
See the ENEOS Report: ESG Data Book 2024 (available on our website in January 2025) for further details.
DATA ESG Data Book—The 3Rs (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle)

The core approach of the AGC Group's sustainability management is through the creation of three social values: “Blue planet” , “Innovation”, and “Well-being”. The AGC Group has identified “key opportunities” among the opportunities and risks (materiality) that are important for the AGC Group to contribute to solving long-term social issues facing the world and to achieve sustainable growth of the AGC Group. The AGC Group will contribute to the realization of a flourishing society and the planet by transforming these issues into value through the leverage of its strengths in technology and reputation for dependability, which have been cultivated since its foundation.

Initiatives designed to save energy

Under the Disaster-Resistant and Eco-Friendly Warehouse concept, for newly built warehouse facilities we adopted: (1) LED lighting throughout the facilities; (2) the installation of high-efficiency air conditioners; and (3) heat-shielding, high-insulation, double-glazed glass (Low-E glass) with the goal of obtaining CASBEE*1 “A” ranking or higher. Osaka/Ibaraki Distribution Center No. 5, which was completed in October 2022, received an “A” ranking from CASBEE Osaka Prefecture.
In existing facilities, besides replacing existing lighting with LEDs, we are actively installing equipment with high energy-saving performance.

*1 CASBEE is a method for evaluating the environmental performance of buildings with a system that comprehensively evaluates the quality of buildings in addition to facility installations that show consideration has been given to the natural environment, such as energy saving and the use of equipment with a low environmental burden. This includes the degree of comfort for building users, the consideration given to the building’s appearance, and measures to reduce impact on the building’s surroundings, such as the effects of light pollution.

Recycling-oriented industry using natural materials

Mitsubishi Paper Mills is characterized by the development, manufacturing and sales of products to contribute to the realization of a sustainable society.
Using lumber from properly managed forest (FSC® certified materials), recycled resources and managed raw materials, we makes eco- friendly pulp, plastic-free products and unique paper-based products that leverage our papermaking and coating technologies.

FSC® C021528

Using 100% domestically produced chips

Kitakami Mill uses 100% domestically produced chips to make paper-based products, including paper for household use.
By growing, utilizing and recycling wood, we help develop sustainable forests.

Nikon's Technology Reduces Energy Loss Across Industries

Nikon has leveraged its proprietary laser-processing technology to artificially apply riblets, artificial microstructures that resemble shark skin, to the surfaces of various product components. This technology enhances energy efficiency, and the development of Nikon's riblet-processing technology is currently being tested for practical use in wind power and aviation, with expectations for its contributions across a variety of fields in the future. Nikon delivers innovative solutions to achieve sustainable society.

Sustainable Procurement

Sustainable procurement is an initiative for companies to preferentially select items with a low environmental footprint when procuring raw materials, parts, materials, services, or other goods from suppliers.Mitsubishi Cable Industries is implementing the following initiatives.

Internal Control System for Substances Contained in Products

We are strengthening our internal control of environmentally hazardous substances contained in our products with the cooperation of our business partners. We have established "Sustainable Procurement Standards" to help our business partners understand our basic approach to sustainable procurement. By requesting them to obtain ISO14001 certification or develop an Environmental Management System equivalent to it, we are promoting the procurement of raw materials and parts in which environmentally hazardous substances are controlled. Under the Sustainable Procurement Standards, we designate environmentally hazardous substances that are subject to domestic and international laws and regulations as prohibited substances and control them. We revise the Sustainable Procurement Standards according to domestic and international laws and regulations, as well as customer and social requirements.
Regarding the studies of substances contained in the products, information is collected from our business partners based on the above Sustainable Procurement Standards. In order to keep up with the increasing number of chemical substances being subject to examinations, we are conducting our examinations using Article Information Sheets (AIS, MSDSplus) provided by the Joint Article Management Promotion-consortium (JAMP).

Sustainable procurement outline diagram

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