CSR

We created the Fujikura Global Environment Charter in 1992 and revised it in April 2013. Specifically, we added a provision on the conservation of biodiversity to the Charter based on the recognition that we need to make our business activities compatible with the protection of the global environment.

The world population extends to 9 billion people and the economic to scale 4 times by the prediction of Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) ^*1 and with it , the energy demands and the consumption of the natural resource enlarge the world of 2050.
As a result, in 2050, We will face various problems on the earth scale. Among them, the major problems are 1. "Intensifying climate change", 2. "Accelerating the loss of biodiversity", 3. "Serious water shortage", and 4. "Progress of air pollution". As a result, in 2050, We will face various problems on the earth scale. Among them, the major problems are 1. "Intensifying climate change", 2. "Accelerating the loss of biodiversity", 3. "Serious water shortage", and 4. "Progress of air pollution".

Among these four problems, the biggest one is the <intensifying climate change>, the world's CO₂ emissions will increase by 50% (by 2010) in 2050, etc. In the worst case scenario * 1 the earth's we predict that the average temperature will rise by 3 to 6 degrees in 2100 of the end of the century compared to before the industrial revolution.
In addition, predictive report^*2 of "United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change" (IPCC) gives off warning in the world when the influence of the warming will continue for the several centuries after 2100.

In December 2015, 196 countries participated and the 21st Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 21) was held and the "Paris Agreement" was adopted. The result was a historical agreement towards climate change, including "to mention that the world 's average temperature rise should be kept to less than 2 degrees in 2030 and" to further suppress it within 1.5 degrees ". After the Paris Agreement, Japan formulated the "Global Warming Countermeasures Plan" in March 2016 and decided to "reduce CO2 by 80%" (relative to 2015) in 2050 as a "long-term goal" .

The result was a historical agreement towards climate change, including "to mention that the world's average temperature rise should be kept to less than 2 degrees in 2030 and" to further suppress it within 1.5 degrees".

The Group, which develops business globally, established the Fujikura Group CSR Philosophy in July 2009.

In this CSR philosophy, we defined that "The corporate social responsibility that the Fujikura group should be established from the activities required for" sustainable corporate management "and the activities for useful to construct " sustainable society "based on the management philosophy MVCV of the Fujikura Group . "

Currently, there is a future forecast of international organizations that the global environment is heading towards a crisis situation. There are efforts of the international community, mainly the United Nations, to deal with it, and our efforts. Based on such international and domestic situations, the Group has formulated the "Environmental Long-term Vision 2050" for the year 2050.

The Fujikura Group CSR Committee established the "Fujikura Group Environmental challenge 2050" on July 19, 2016, in response to the recommendations of the Fujikura Group Global Environment Committee and others, and started initiatives for the future.

Based on the five-year experience of CSR activities, the Fujikura Group began to quantify its whole CSR activities in an easy-to-understand manner and disclose the numerical data to society and stakeholders. Specifically, from 54 major Group companies, we collected information and data about the CSR activities they had conducted in fiscal 2015 and tabulated them as follows.

Under the International Integrated Reporting Framework announced by the International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC), the materiality determination process is defined as the process in which relevant matters are identified, evaluated with regard to their materiality, and prioritized based on the evaluation results. The Fujikura Group prioritizes its environmental measures in line with the IIRC's materiality determination process. Specifically, we regularly identify environmental matters that are relevant to us, evaluate their materiality, prioritize them based on the evaluation results, and then introduce in our report the measures we have implemented according to the prioritization results.

Fujikura is committed to identifying its energy use and waste generation amounts as well as the use of chemical substances in its business operations, in order to clarify related problems and make improvements to reduce its environmental impact. To this end, we have been collecting and managing environmental data from each factory and office in the Fujikura Group.
Last fiscal year we launched the Fujikura Group ECO-PASS system to increase the efficiency of environmental data collection.

In order to encourage the sharing and analysis of the collected information across the Group to further reduce our environmental impact, we have "visualized" the information, including data about our environmental impact and the results of our environmental activities.

Following a decision made by its CSR Committee (Management Committee) in July 2013, Fujikura Ltd. announced its support for the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC), which outlines the universal and international principles on human rights, labor, the environment and anti-corruption. Subsequently, on September 3, 2013, the company became a signatory to the Global Compact and also joined the Global Compact Japan Network (GC-JN). The UNGC, which is based on 10 principles, provides a global framework for companies and other organizations to act as good corporate citizens for the creation of a sustainable society by displaying leadership in a responsible manner. Under this framework, Fujikura began to conduct activities after checking that the Group had the necessary policies and guidelines corresponding to the 10 principles in place, and established new ones as necessary.

The United Nations created the five year Millennium Ecosystem Assessment* starting from 2001. The findings of the Assessment included the following facts regarding environmental destruction: over several dozen years at the end of the 20th century, about 40% of Earth's coral reefs were destroyed or had deteriorated, and about 35% of mangrove forests were lost. Regarding biodiversity, over the past several hundred years, humans caused the extinction of Earth's species at around a 1,000 times faster rate than the natural extinction rate.

Fujikura Ltd. is conducting activities as a signatory of the United Nations Global Compact, which contains Ten Principles. Principle 8 urges signatories to undertake initiatives to promote greater environmental responsibility. The Fujikura Group aims to become a corporate group that is friendly to the global environment. We are proactively joining efforts made to build up an international framework for the environment, while fostering measures to ensure biodiversity by making use of the environmental materiality matrix from medium- to long-term viewpoints.

We received verification from an independent third party, to help enhance the reliability of the environmental performance data from the group’s CSR Integration Report, and we have published it as part of this report. With the audit at the Sakura offices, continued on from the previous year, we received a detailed confirmation regarding the Sakura offices’ management systems and data management. Scope 3 CO2 emission data was newly added as an audit target. The audit resulted in the issuance of a verification report, with no issues indicated for correction. In addition, we have been working to enhance and expand the scope of our verifications, including a review of our Suzuka offices in June.

Domestic:14, Overseas:32