Managing Energy and Addressing Climate Change

Goals and KPI

2030

Goal

Achieve net zero CO₂ emissions from our Group’s business activities

KPIs

1. Reduce CO₂ emissions (Scopes 1 + 2) from Group business activities to net zero (t-CO₂)
2. Use 100% renewable energy for electricity consumption (Scope 2) in the Group’s business activities

*Scope 3 to be considered and disclosed in the future

2024

Goal

Establish an environmental management structure and promote the continuous reduction of environment impact from business activities

KPIs

1. Establish an environmental management structure
2. Measure and disclose CO₂ emissions (target: consolidated group)

Initiatives

Calculate and disclose CO₂ emissions

SDGs Being Addressed by Activities

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Approach and System

Approach to Climate Change Issues

Global warming and the resulting climate change will not only have a significant impact on social and economic activities due to rising average temperatures, but it is predicted that they will also have irreversible effects on our lives, property, and society. These effects include health hazards such as heat stroke, lower crop yields due to droughts, more severe natural disasters due to larger typhoons and rising sea levels, and impacts on natural ecosystems. These effects are already starting to become apparent.
Our Group provides cloud-based IT services, but we do not own our own cloud servers. Instead, we use cloud servers provided by Amazon Web Services, a company with excellent security, stability, and scalability. We also use “WeWork,” flexible offices with community-style workspaces. This means that the majority of our Group’s environmental impact comes from greenhouse gas (CO₂) emissions generated by the power consumption of these cloud services and shared offices, and thus we too are affected by climate change issues.
We aim to provide users with IT services that have no environmental impact and pass on a rich and precious global environment and stable climate to the next generation. To do so, we hope to gradually achieve and provide environmentally friendly services, including decarbonized IT services.

Environmental Conservation System

We have established a system for climate change prevention and other environmental conservation activities, with the CEO Office, which reports directly to the CEO, as the main department in charge, and the CEO Office Manager as the person responsible. We carry out environmental activities in cooperation with the Product and Corporate Divisions.

Main Initiatives

Future Activity Roadmap

To achieve our 2030 goals, in fiscal year 2024, we established an environmental management system to carry out fundamental environmental conservation activities and worked on the measurement and visualization of environmental data. Going forward, we will study measures to reduce environmental impact.
We will begin by reducing Scope 1 and Scope 2 CO₂ emissions to net zero as quickly as possible by 2030 through measures such as switching electricity used in our offices and other facilities to renewable energy sources.

Measurement of Environmental Data

To properly manage and reduce our environmental impact, we measure and disclose our CO₂ emissions.
Energy consumption and CO₂ emissions increased from fiscal year 2023 to fiscal year 2024, but this increase was due to our office expansion and relocation in line with business expansion, leading to greater use of electricity as a result of the bigger floor area and other factors. Going forward, we will undertake initiatives toward reducing consumption and emissions, studying measures that include switching to electricity derived from renewable energy for consumption at our offices and such.

Energy consumption at business sites (Scope 1 and 2 for consolidated group)

* This data shows the trend of energy consumption at the offices of kubell Co., Ltd. and Group companies.

CO₂ emissions and emissions per unit of sales (Scope 1 and 2 for consolidated group)

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