Addressing Climate Change

The Glory Group considers climate change as an urgent issue to be addressed and promotes environmental management through initiatives including reduction of greenhouse gas emissions to contribute to sustainable society.

Glory’s Environmental Policies address global warming and set forth a long-term goal to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050.

Specifically, we will work to bring our greenhouse gas emissions closer to zero and achieve carbon neutrality in our supply chains, in support of the 2050 goals agreed upon in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (Paris Agreement).

Since November 2021, the Glory group has been supporting the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD). We are committed to disclosing information regarding risks and opportunities that climate change presents to our business.

Towards carbon neutrality and sustainable society, we promote sound management practices to reduce the environmental burden in every aspect of our business activities. To ensure sound decision-making and supervision for our business execution, we have put in place the following procedure.

Climate-related issues are first dealt by the Environmental Management Committee, chaired by the executive officer who is delegated the authority and responsibility by the President for environmental management. The Environmental Management Committee deliberates upon climate-related matters, of which material issues are reported to and approved by the Sustainability Committee chaired by the President.

Finally, these issues are reported to the Board of Directors and this process is stipulated in the Sustainability Committee regulations.

Below is the list of our climate-related risks and opportunities with key drivers and possible impacts on our business over medium- to long-term.

Going forward, we will conduct analysis and evaluation throughout our value chain based on the multiple scenarios including B2DS (Beyond 2℃ Scenario).

The impact of climate-related risks and opportunities on the Company's business and the Company's responses are assumed as follows.

*Financial impact ; Large=1 billion yen or more, Medium=100 million yen or more and less than 1 billion yen, Small=less than 100 million yen.

The Risk Management Committee, chaired by the President, extracts and reviews potential risks in all areas including climate change and identifies material issues.

To address these risks, we apply an environmental management system and follow the PDCA cycle in alignment with Glory’s business activities.

Identified risks and opportunities are reviewed in the Environmental Management Committee.

The Glory Group uses CO₂ emissions as the key metrics for climate-related risks and opportunities and has set “FY2050 Environmental Sustainability Goals”, aiming for net-zero CO₂ emissions by FY2050. These goals are aligned with Glory’s environmental policies and the idea of carbon neutral society. Casting back from the FY2050 Environmental Sustainability Goals, we have set FY2030 Environmental Sustainability Goals as a milestone to reduce CO₂ emissions by 50% compared to FY2013.

To monitor the KPIs, we have formulated the Medium-Term Environmental Plan with specific targets to be achieved within the three years covered in the plan. In the first year (FY2021), we achieved a 25.9% reduction compared to FY2013.

Going forward, we will start examining the ways to reduce Scope 3 emissions in the supply chain.

Aiming for carbon neutrality in FY2050, we will continue our initiatives, such as planned update to energy-efficient equipment at manufacturing sites, and increase the use of renewable energy through solar power generation and renewable energy procurement (purchase with Renewable Energy Certificate).

We monitor our CO₂ emissions regularly and disclose the figures over time for;

Scope 1 - Direct emissions from our business activities

Scope 2 - Indirect emissions from purchased electricity

Scope 3 - All other indirect emissions from upstream and downstream activities in supply chains

We have established 3-year action plans and annual goals to reduce CO₂ emissions. Our initiatives include installation of electricity usage monitoring system, LED lighting, and human detection sensors. We have also installed solar power system on the rooftop of the Head Office buildings for the use of renewable energy.

In fiscal 2021, CO₂ emissions from our domestic sites decreased by 25.9% compared to fiscal 2013. The usage at our offices decreased as a result of teleworking measure to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

We calculate our CO₂ emissions created by our supply chains to understand the current status and to reduce the environmental impact of our business activities. In Scope 3, we categorize these emissions to visualize the trend to control the CO₂ emissions created outside our business activities.

Category 1 (Purchased products and services) and Category 11 (Use of our products) are the main target for CO₂ reduction, as they account for 85% of the Scope 3 emissions.