Murata continues efforts to reduce the environmental load of manufacturing. Reinforcing climate change countermeasures has been selected as a priority issue (material issue). A target greenhouse gas (GHG*1) reduction amount has also been set and business is being operated under that target.
Total GHG emissions increased rapidly until fiscal 2018, due to increased production spurred by higher demand for electronic components in recent years, M&As, and new business expansion. However, with the enactment of the Paris Agreement, companies are now required to reduce total GHG emissions even as they expand.
Murata is, therefore, working toward reducing total GHG emissions by promoting energy conservation and the use of renewable energy, with the Climate Change Committee (chaired by the Executive Vice President) taking a central role. The Climate Change Committee held discussions concerning Murata's climate change measure policies with the 3 subcommittees including Climate Initiatives Subcommittee, Renewable Energy Subcommittee, and Energy-saving Subcommittee, and had considered CFP*2 calculations with aims to further generate energy saving measures as well as held discussions considering the introduction of systems which fused solar panels and storage batteries into domestic business sites and the introduction of renewable energy such as by signing agreements for virtual PPA in fiscal 2022.
In addition, not only are we engaging in the energy conservation centered around capital investment, which we have implemented to date, but we are also building new energy management systems that combine our sensing and IoT technologies to optimize the usage of energy in production.
Murata has received third-party certification with regard to total GHG emissions, and has been highly praised for actively disclosing information on our total GHG emissions and climate change countermeasure efforts, even from sources outside the company, including our A score on the CDP*3 climate change survey in 2021 and A- score in 2022.
Link: Third-party verification
Link: TCFD measures