Environmental Solutions
Providing solutions that support customers' environmental operations and Environmentally Conscious Solutions that can help diminish their environmental burdens through the use of IT
An Approach to Global Environmental Issues that Makes Good Use of IT
The issues facing the global environment transcend national borders and extend over time to future generations. They emerge from the interaction of many different factors. In dealing with global environmental issues, any approach that only deals with a single aspect, whether peoples' livelihoods, industry, or nature, is inadequate. It is essential to approach these issues with a multifaceted, comprehensive approach.
The use of IT, a key element of the Ubiquitous Net Japan* concept, will be effective in resolving these issues, since such pervasive connections in and of themselves will bring about reductions in the environmental burden by reducing the use of resources and energy. What is more, the use of IT will help in dealing with complex systems (consisting of vast volumes of individual data that cannot be readily extracted) from a composite, comprehensive point of view. Truly, IT is the fundamental technology that will support the formation of a 21st century recycling-minded society.
In view of these developments, through the hardware, software and IT services we provide to our customers, we are contributing to greater efficiencies in their environment-related activities. In this way, we seek to contribute to society through our business operations.
* Ubiquitous Net Japan: An initiative to create a ubiquitous network society in Japan by 2010 (from the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications' u-Japan policy)
Environmental Operations Solutions
Combining the practical knowledge we have developed over the years in environmental activities with the very latest in IT capabilities, we provide Environmental Operations Solutions to support customer environmental management and environmental administration in a wide range of operational areas, such as environmental management systems, life cycle assessments and support for ecofriendly design, Green Procurement, monitoring to save energy and resources, waste management, recycling management and information disclosure.
Environmentally Conscious Solutions
Focusing on the benefits that IT offers in reducing environmental burdens, Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. has developed a method to quantitatively evaluate the benefits of adopting IT solutions. This method involves evaluating carbon dioxide emissions relating to various factors that impact the environment, such as consumption of materials or the movement of people, and thus shows the benefits in reducing environmental burdens after introducing an IT solution. IT solutions where the concomitant benefit in reduction of environmental burden is calculated to be 15% or greater (in terms of carbon dioxide) are certified as Environmentally Conscious Solutions.
We have begun full-scale use of this certification system from June 2004, and as of the end of April 2005, 28 of our solutions have been certified as Environmentally Conscious Solutions. During fiscal 2004, these Environmentally Conscious Solutions helped prevent 34,500t in carbon dioxide emissions.
