Providing Solutions that Help the Environment
The Fujitsu Group utilizes environmental impact assessment techniques to quantitatively evaluate the environmental burden reduction benefits of using our software and IT services/solutions, and develop and provide Environmentally Conscious Solutions that help to reduce our customers' environmental burdens. By the end of fiscal 2008, we had certified a total of 160 products (including an increase of 55 in fiscal 2008), and had provided them to customers in a wide range of businesses and industrial fields.
From 2007, we have also introduced the Eco-Friendly Solutions registration system, a qualitative environmental assessment. This is not limited to earlier business areas but also targets efficiency-improving tools for corporate internal use. We have registered 206 proposals as a system that all employees can work with.
We are also expanding the software and IT solutions business areas we offer as Eco-Friendly and Environmentally Conscious Solutions from a package-centered approach (we achieved complete coverage of all areas in Stage IV) to the SI and outsourcing areas, and have deployed this approach in all of the business areas.
The Stage V Fujitsu Group Environmental Protection Program included a fiscal 2008 standalone target of expanding to 28 the number of SI and outsourcing areas in which our environmental solutions have been certified or registered, and we were able to meet this target.
In fiscal 2009, we aim to probe even more deeply in all areas.
Environmental Impact Assessment Techniques
The Fujitsu Group utilizes techniques developed by Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd to quantitatively assess from the following viewpoints how much our customers' environmental burdens have been reduced by introducing our IT solutions products.
- Evaluating the environmental benefits of introducing IT solutions, including the benefits of increasing efficiencies such as working efficiency as well as the potential energy-saving and resource-saving benefits.
- Indicating the overall environmental benefit by evaluating from the standpoints of both the factors that increase the environmental burden and the factors that decrease it.
- We evaluate by converting the environmental burden to a CO2 emission quantity.
Nakano Ward
Nakano Ward in Tokyo, a local government authority with sophisticated use of IT, has introduced our 'IPKNOWLEDGE' internal information system into its ward office, and is using it to improve its working efficiency and reduce its environmental burden. The result of a trial calculation of the reduction in the environmental burden indicated that introducing the system had led to a 45.4% decrease in CO2 emissions.
Nakano Ward submitted this initiative as a case study titled 'Case Study on the Introduction of an IT Solution into a Ward Office's Internal Communications' for a Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications' study group's Case Studies on Reducing Environmental Burdens through ICT (Information and Communications Technology), and it was published in the study group's report in April 2007.
