Environmental Activities in Offices

Reducing the Environmental Burden in Offices

The Fujitsu Group also promotes environmental activities in its administrative offices, saving energy, working toward zero waste emissions and contributing to society and, of course, ensuring legal compliance.

To promote environmental burden reductions that exhibit the greatest possible degree of group governance, even in business offices, we initiated our Green Office system in FY 2007. This system comprehensively evaluates aspects such as the level of environmental consideration and independent efforts at each office and renders visible this evaluation by assigning one of three levels (see the following figure).

In the Fujitsu Group Environmental Protection Program (Stage V), we established the goal of achieving a level of two stars () or more at every office in Japan covered by this system by the end of FY 2009 and we aim to continuously improve and increase our level of environmental awareness. As a result of this effort, all of the offices at 371 sites had achieved the three star () level by the end of FY 2009. At the same time we also achieved zero waste emissions^*1 of waste materials from all 371 sites, which was the largest such effort in Japan.

In the Fujitsu Group Environmental Protection Program (Stage VI), which started with FY 2010, we set achieving a level of four stars () or higher at every office in Japan covered by this system by the end of FY 2012. In addition to the three star () level conditions, the following items were added to the four star () level conditions: biodiversity conservation activities, disclosure of environmental information to stakeholders, and unification of industrial waste processing for office emissions. Furthermore, there are now five achievement levels. At every office, at the same time as initiating activities to achieve this goal, we plan to create opportunities to discuss issues common to all offices and promote environmental activities intimately linked to the local community.

For our overseas sites, we initiated surveys of current conditions in FY 2010. In the future we will collect proposals based on the results of this survey and we are looking into implementing trials of those proposals.

In this way, we plan to render the details of the activities carried out by our offices "visible," construct databases that allow the activities to be shared with and rolled out to other offices, and continue to raise the level of environmental activities throughout the Fujitsu Group.

*1 For simple calculations of emissions from the incineration or landfi ll disposal of industrial waste and paper waste

Creating a Database of Environmental Activity Measures, and Utilizing Checklists

Through implementation of Green Office System, we check and create data base of all offices regarding each measure's activity progress such as energy saving, disposal reduction and paperless, and establish measurement check-list.

These checklists are proving useful not only as materials for considering the measures to adopt when our offices set their environmental objectives and targets but also for invigorating and improving the activities by making visible operational improvement issues and measures that require investment.