Collaboration with External Parties

Involvement with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD)
Involvement with the World Economic Forum (WEF)

During these times, the challenges facing society and the environment have grown in number. The principle that companies have a responsibility to all of their stakeholders has spread worldwide, to include not just customers and investors, but employees, suppliers, and communities of all sizes.

Fujitsu supports this principle and is working towards the realization of a sustainable society, acting in conjunction with international organizations and a variety of like-minded companies.

Involvement with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD)

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The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) is an international organization with members from more than 230 companies from around the world. Fujitsu has been participating in the WBCSD since 2013, and Fujitsu executives have served in positions such as vice chair and director since 2018 to help realize WBCSD’s vision (*1) by working with member companies to accelerate change through business activities.
By participating in a wide range of WBCSD initiatives, Fujitsu is working to enhance mutual knowledge across fields with various organizations and companies, consider the best methods for sustainable development, and engage in activities to put those methods into practice.

Main Initiatives

Fujitsu embarks on digital collaboration with WBCSD for carbon neutral transportation: Fujitsu has commenced digital collaboration with the WBCSD, Dutch consulting firm Arcadis, and British electricity company National Grid, leveraging Fujitsu’s Fleet Optimization solution. By charging electric vehicles (EVs) during hours when green power is abundant, fleet operators have seen a 15% reduction in CO₂ emissions from EV charging.
Deployment of Integrated Performance Management (IPM): Fujitsu participated in an internal WBCSD project to promote IPM, a framework for integrating ESG into decision-making processes and, in collaboration with other companies, produced an IPM report in 2023. This report uses Fujitsu as an example case to introduce the importance of strong commitment from top management for achieving intended purposes and IPM initiatives.

We will continue to actively collaborate with the WBCSD, which shares common direction with the Fujitsu group's purpose, and contribute to the realization of a sustainable future.

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WBCSD’s vision: A world in which more than 9 billion people are able to live well, within planetary boundaries, by 2050

Involvement with the World Economic Forum (WEF)

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The World Economic Forum (WEF) is a not-for-profit foundation established by economist Klaus Schwab that engages in programs to improve the state of the world through cooperation between the public and private sectors in a spirit of global citizenship. It offers a venue for close collaboration among leaders from a diverse range of major international institutions as well as from the business world, government, academia and society, with the aim of shaping global, regional and industry-based agendas.

In January 2024, the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (commonly known as the Davos Conference) was held in Davos, Switzerland. The 2024 theme was "Rebuilding Trust," and topics discussed included geopolitical risks such as the situation in the Middle East and Ukraine, problems with new technologies such as generative AI, and resource issues such as energy.
At the meeting, President Tokita and then–Vice President Furuta were able to hear and share with political and business leaders regarding World Economic Forum’s global agenda for economic security, sustainability, digital transformation, and the future of new technologies such as generative AI.
Fujitsu Uvance House also had its own booth (the only Japanese company to do so) at the conference for the second year. Then–Senior Executive Takahashi, Executive Vice President Yamamoto, and others networked with government officials and corporate leaders from various countries and deepened relationships with important customers through a roundtable co-hosted with the Financial Times.
As a member of the World Economic Forum, we will work to lead the formation of a global consensus to realize the theme of the 2024 Annual Meeting by aligning Forum’s global agenda and our materialities as a net-positive technology enterprise.