As part of its three-year medium-term management plans, the NH Foods Group has formulated environmental targets aimed at reducing the environmental impact of its business activities. In April 2021, the Group formulated Vision2030 and the Five Materialities, while also setting medium- to long-term environmental targets for 2030. We will continue to contribute to the development of a sustainable society by working to reduce environmental loads and use resources efficiently.
Medium- to Long-Term Targets (to Fiscal 2030)
One of the Five Materialities is “Contributing to a sustainable environment.” Based on this, we have made addressing climate change, resource saving and recycling, and tackling the biodiversity issue into priority issues and have set targets for each one.
In addition, from fiscal 2022 we instituted environmental targets with of bringing our overseas in line with medium- to- long-term environmental targets in Japan. Going forward, we will work to promote efforts to achieve a sustainable society from a more global perspective.
| Priority issue | Target：Year of achievement 2030 |
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| Responding to climate change | Reduce CO2 emissions from fossil fuels ・Japan：FY2023 target of 15.9% or higher compared to FY2013 and FY2030 target of 46% or higher compared to FY2013 ・Overseas:FY2030 target of 24% or higher compared to FY2021 |
| Promote research and technological development to control and reduce greenhouse gases derived from livestock | |
Resource saving and recycling |
Reduce waste emissions 5% reduction per production unit compared to FY 2019 in Japan |
| Improve the waste recycling rate 92% or higher in Japan | |
| Reduce water consumption per production unit ・Japan： Reduce 5% compared with FY2019 levels ・Overseas： Reduce 5% compared with FY2021 levels |
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| Identify which of our business sites in both Japan and overseas are in regions with high levels of water risk, take action to lower this risk in accordance with the situation in each region, and use water resources in a sustainable manner | |
| Addressing biodiversity | Raise the ratio of RSPO-certified palm oil used (target: 100%, including book & claim) |
Note: For overseas operations, based on FY2021 results, with reduction targets set as equal to yearly reduction targets in Japan
Note: Coverage of the Plan：
Reduction of fossil fuel-derived CO2 emissions at NH Foods Group business sites in Japan and Overseas
Waste discharges at NH Foods Group manufacturing factory in Japan
Improvement of waste recycling rates at NH Foods Group business sites in Japan
Water consumption at NH Foods Group manufacturing factory in Japan and Overseas
- See here for Materialities Progress Report FY2022[ 138 KB / 4pages ]
Results of the Medium-Term Management Plan 2020
Under the Medium-Term Management Plan 2020 (April 2018 - March 2020), we set environmental targets based on average values for the period from fiscal 2012 to fiscal 2016, and we proceeded with our efforts. The results were as follows.
| Action Items | Baseline (Average between fiscal 2012 and fiscal 2016) |
Targets (Average between fiscal 2018 and fiscal 2020) |
Results (Average between fiscal 2018 and fiscal 2020), (From the Baseline) |
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| Mitigation of climate change | CO2 emissions per unit of production *1 | 701.1kg-CO2/t | 8.0% reduction*1 (645.1kg-CO2/t) |
10.0% reduction (631.0kg-CO2/t) |
| Resource saving | Thermal energy per unit of production | 12.0GJ/t | 8.0% reduction*1 (11.0GJ/t) |
3.3% reduction (11.6GJ/t) |
| Water consumption per unit of production | 17.7m3/t | 3.0% reduction*1 (17.2m3/t) |
4.5% increase (18.5m3/t) |
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| Discharged waste per unit of production*2 | 207.5kg/t | 6.0% reduction*1 (195.1kg/t) |
14.3% increase*3 (237.1kg/t) |
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| Promotion of recycling | Waste recycling rate | 90.8% | 94.0% | 88.9% |
- Note: CO2 emissions and thermal energy calculated by using factors in "Act on Promotion of Global Warming Countermeasures" in Japan about each year
- Note: Coverage of the Plan: business sites of NH Foods Group in Japan
- Note: Primary unit of each intensity is per unit of product
- Note: Reduction rate in target value is reduction rate from Baseline
- Note1: Water consumption and discharged includes some estimated values from production departments
- Note2: Excluding farm excreta
- Note3: Excluding the waste from Typhoon Jebi and the Hokkaido Eastern Iburi earthquake in the FY 2018