Efforts to Realize a Low-carbon Society

Reduction in energy consumption is vitally important for cutting the greenhouse gases which cause global warming. The Group reduces energy during product use by providing customers with products that offer greater energy saving performance, as well as providing services that help reduce customer CO2 emissions. At the same time, we are working to reduce the energy consumed in our production processes and to reduce CO2 emssions from services and solutions.

Improving the environmental performance of products, services and solutions

The Group aims to contribute to solving environmental issues by developing and spreading environment-conscious products, as well as solutions and services. One of our actions to that end is to raise the environmental performance of products and promote the widespread application of IoT solutions, such as by enhancing their energy-saving performance.
The assessment subjects are air conditioning IoT solutions as well as refrigerators, washing machines, and LED lighting, which provide high levels of contribution to the suppression of CO2 emissions (power consumption) during use.
In developing products, we work to achieve functional improvement and environmental burden reduction in tandem, using the functions of equivalent models such as the volume of refrigerators and the wash load of washing machines, etc. as indicators. We are also working to cut CO2 emissions by expanding sales of products with high energy-saving performance and promoting the widespread application of air conditioning IoT solutions.
The target set for fiscal 2021 was 78.8% compared to the level in fiscal 2010, and we actually surpassed the target at 76.1%.

CO2 Emissions from Products, Services and Solutions with Significant Reduction in CO2 Emissions
(Refrigerators, Washing Machines, LED Lighting and “exiida” Remote Monitoring and Predictive Diagnostics)
(Compared to Fiscal 2010)

*1 Sum of the amount of CO2 emissions before adopting solutions and services and the amount of CO2 emissions based on the assumption that a required number of units which corresponds to that of products from the assessment fiscal year were used for the whole lifetime
*2 Of main product functions, those relevant to CO2 emissions

Reducing CO2 emissions in the production process

Energy consumption in corporate activities is one emission source of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gases that cause global warming. The Group also uses energy when producing products. It therefore promotes the efficient use of energy consumed in its production activities by means such as the introduction of high-efficiency devices, and the amelioration of the production process. We have been working since 2019 on meeting action plan targets, such as the level of CO2 emissions/unit of production*1; the target set for fiscal 2021 was 85.4% of the level in fiscal 2010, and we actually surpassed the target at 70.5%.

[Subject: Hitachi Global Life Solutions Manufacturing Sites]

Improvement of CO2 Emissions/Unit of Production
(compared to fiscal 2010)

*1 Quotient of CO2 emissions divided by the amount of activities
*2 Value with close correlation to CO2 emissions (such as production and quantity produced)