The Role of the Fujitsu Group
As part of corporate citizenship befitting a global IT company, the Fujitsu Group will help create a prosperous, low-carbon society
First Commitment Period for Kyoto Protocol Commences
The Kyoto Protocol set the period from 2008 to 2012 as the first commitment period for advanced industrial nations, which must reduce their total greenhouse gas emissions by at least 5% compared to 1990. Signatories have specific reduction targets to meet this overarching goal. With the commitment period having started, questions are now being raised in every country about the eff ectiveness of emission-reduction initiatives. At the same time, there are calls for new global warming countermeasures aimed at realizing a low-carbon society; this, while as worldwide debate rages as to what new "post-Kyoto" framework will be devised to take up from where the Kyoto Protocol left off.
Preventing Global Warming Through Innovation
In considering future global warming countermeasures, the Fujitsu Group believes that innovation-based measures must be recognized as a necessary and integral complement to the largely "improvement-driven" measures pursued to date. The IT industry has a tremendous role to play in putting these innovationbased measures into practice.
To give an example, Japan's Ministry of Internal Aff airs and Communications estimates that high IT utilization levels will eff ectively reduce Japan's CO2 emissions by roughly 38 million tons in 2012. In other words, high-level IT utilization will enable CO2 reductions in a host of diff erent areas by making energy usage more efficient, reducing the physical movement of people and goods, and supporting more accurate measurement of environmental load and environmental forecasts. On the other hand, with the amount of electricity consumed by the use of IT devices growing each year, it is critically important to devise ways to reduce the environmental load caused by these devices.
Fujitsu's Role as a Global IT Company
In this context, we formulated "Green Policy 2020," a medium-term environmental vision that will see the Fujitsu Group do its part to make a prosperous society that generates low carbon emissions a reality. Designed to dovetail with the target being considered worldwide of reducing global greenhouse gas emissions to half of current levels by the year 2050, this vision will guide Group eff orts to help emissions peak in 2020 as a necessary milestone in meeting this larger goal.
Fiscal 2007 also witnessed the launch of a new Fujitsu Group initiative called "Green Policy Innovation." By off ering "Green IT" built on expertise and technologies from the Group's own environmental activities, this initiative will help to reduce the environmental load of our customers and society. Our minimum goal is to have the Fujitsu Group assist in reducing CO2 emissions by a cumulative 7 million tons or more by fiscal 2010.
Along with more robust initiatives to further reduce the environmental load associated with its own activities, the Fujitsu Group will work together with customers to realize a prosperous society where low carbon emissions are the norm by merging expertise from our own environmental initiatives and powerful information technology to offer solutions for protecting the Earth and our natural environment.
