With the expansion of economic activities, concerns about global environmental issues are increasing, such as climate change due to global warming, pollution of environmental resources by chemical substances, and loss of biodiversity. Since publishing our Environmental Voluntary Action Plan in 1993, NHK Spring Group has been working on global environmental problems.

Declaration of achieving carbon neutrality by 2039

In October 2020, the Japanese government declared that it intends to decrease 2030 domestic CO2 emissions by 46% less than 2013 emissions and reach carbon neutrality by 2050. On a global scale, carbon neutral declarations by countries and companies are being declared one after another.

At our Group's Global Environmental Response Committee meeting held in July 2021, the President stated, "1) Achieve carbon neutrality by 2039 and 2) Reduce CO2 emissions by 50% from the fiscal 2013 level by 2030." The year 2039 marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of NHK Spring. The declaration was included in a message for the anniversary of our founding on September 8, 2021, and was distributed via video to all Group employees in Japan and overseas.

Currently, we are preparing a roadmap and a plan based on specific measures. The entire Group will work together to achieve this goal.

Materials presented by the President at the 1st Global Environmental Response Committee meeting held on July 29, 2021

Strengthening of activity structure

NHK Spring Group has been building an environmental promotion structure and promoting activities for some time. However, in order to achieve our carbon neutral target, we need to develop innovative technologies and take bold measures. To ensure stronger execution, carbon neutral activities will be carried out from the top down.

Meetings of the Global Environmental Response Committee are held under the leadership of the CEO and Vice Presidents of NHK Spring. The committee members, vice presidents of each production division, are in charge of controlling and managing the environmental conservation efforts of not only at NHK Spring plants, but also at domestic and overseas group companies of each division.

The details of the activities are reported regularly to the committee. The outstanding activities of each production division will be shared throughout the Group to further promote activities. We will vigorously promote our activities to achieve our goals.

Environmental Activity Policies

We are addressing global environmental issues on a group and global basis, according to the Annual Environmental Activity Policy. In fiscal 2021, we are implementing “Respond to new environmental conservation activities”.

The first is to manage the responses to environmental questions. In response to surveys from external entities, such as customers, investors, and CDP, we work with other departments to organize and unify our responses.

The second is starting survey activities on carbon neutrality. To set group's goals and consider actions to take, we conduct surveys of national and local governments, customers, and industrial organizations, and report them to our production divisions via Global Environmental Response Committee. Based on the survey results, we will create a roadmap and promote activities for carbon neutrality.

We will work towards waste management, various environmentally hazardous substances management, customer service, preservation and renewal of environmental facilities, and compliance with environmental laws and regulation, continuously and systematically.