Living in Harmony with Nature (Conservation of Biodiversity)

Management Approach

The Global Risks Report 2022 released by the World Economic Forum (WEF) ranks biodiversity loss as the third most severe risk globally, recognizing the loss of nature and biodiversity alongside climate change as a critical long-term threat. Viewing the creation of a nature-positive world as essential to addressing this issue, the G7 Summit held in June 2021 agreed on a G7 2030 Nature Compact, which includes a commitment to “halt and reverse biodiversity loss by 2030”. In Part 2 of the 15th Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (hereinafter CBD-COP15), scheduled to be held in 2022, the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework, which includes international targets for 2030, will also be adopted. Business groups such as the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) and international environmental NGOs such as the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) have also announced a joint proposal with a target of achieving a nature-positive world by 2030. It is now considered vital that we not only have net-zero initiatives to counter climate change, but also integrated measures aimed at achieving a nature-positive world.

In 2009, the Fujitsu Group formulated the Fujitsu Group Biodiversity Action Principles. Those principles state that our approach to doing business will “pursue the conservation of biodiversity and the sustainable use of natural resources in our business activities” and will “contribute to building a society which ensures the conservation of biodiversity and the sustainable use of natural resources”. Not only will we continually reduce the environmental impact of our business activities, but we will also utilize ICT to assist in the protection of endangered species and the conservation of tropical rainforests on an ongoing basis.

To achieve a nature-positive world, the Fujitsu Group also believes that no time should be lost in promoting such initiatives. As one of the targets in Stage X of our Environmental Action Plan, we have set a target for the conservation of nature and biodiversity, and we have initiated actions aimed at assessing and reducing our dependencies and impacts on ecosystems and on biodiversity.

FY2021 Performance

Of the draft international targets for 2030 scheduled to be adopted at CBD-COP15, one very relevant goal for the business sector is target 15: “All businesses (public and private, large, medium and small) assess and report on their dependencies and impacts on biodiversity, from local to global, and progressively reduce negative impacts, by at least half and increase positive impacts, reducing biodiversity-related risks to businesses and moving towards the full sustainability of extraction and production practices, sourcing, and supply chains, and use and disposal (Reference "CBD/WG2020/3/3 FIRST DRAFT OF THE POST-2020 GLOBAL BIODIVERSITY FRAMEWORK" ).” Discussions on the assessment indicators for each of the targets were also held at the 24th meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice (hereinafter SBSTTA24), with ‘Ecological Footprint’ being proposed as one of the candidate indicators for target 15.

Following consideration of these and other global-level discussions, the Fujitsu Group selected Ecological Footprint as the assessment indicator for targets in its Environmental Action Plan (Stage X).