Biodiversity Conservation (Priority Issue 3)

Since its establishment, the Fujifilm Group has been keenly aware of the benefits that nature bestows on us in all of our business activities, as well as of the impact our businesses have on nature. This is why we emphasize the importance of protecting biodiversity and the environment. In contributing to building a sustainable society through our business activities, we believe that a nature-positive attitude (preventing loss of ecosystems and restoring them) is a priority social issue and have set out policies that will serve as the basis of this belief. We are engaged in a range of activities in line with these policies.
For this reason, we support the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD), an international initiative aimed at evaluating the impact of economic activities by business enterprises and financial organizations to ecosystems and the environment and are building a framework for information disclosure. For the results of our assessment conducted in line with our LEAP Approach^* as proposed in TNFD Recommendations v1.0, please refer to our TNFD Report published separately.
As biodiversity is an issue that affects localities more than climate change, we intend to communicate with our stakeholders with an emphasis on regional social issues, while continuing to approach issues from an international perspective.

• * LEAP Approach：The comprehensive approach to assessment of nature-related issues recommended by TNFD. Diagnosis is made up of four steps in addition to the preliminary step of “scoping”. They are “locate,” “evaluate,” “assess” and “prepare ” and are aimed at locating the contact points with nature, evaluating dependence, impacts, risks and opportunities related to nature and promoting disclosure of information such as details of the measures, indices and goals, etc.

The Fujifilm Group is engaged in a range of activities from the “business sites,” “products” and “local communities” perspectives in response to the risks and opportunities related to biodiversity.

1．Minimizing impact

The chemical substances that are used in many of our business sites are toxic and hazardous to varying degrees. Once environmental impact such as air pollution, water contamination and soil pollution occurs, biodiversity suffers a decline not only around our business sites but also in surrounding land areas and water systems. Once damaged, restoration may require a long period of time in some cases. To prevent occurrence, we are not only following the relevant laws and regulations but have also established our own independent management standards for business site management on a higher level.

2．Environmental protection in local communities

For specific initiatives, please refer to the “Topics.”

The Fujifilm Group manufactures environmentally conscious products that do not adversely affect biodiversity. 

1．Efforts to procure plant-derived materials

The Fujifilm Group established “Management Rules for Procurement of Plant-Derived Materials” in fiscal 2021. The rules are to strictly control procurement of materials made from plant resources, such as pulp and palm oil, to ensure that they are managed with consideration for the environment and human rights. The rules ensure that we are not involved in the destruction of nature nor human rights infringement.
In our Business Innovation segment, specific subrules for paper procurement require not only quality standards but also supplier criteria to ensure that our suppliers pay attention to biodiversity and respect the rights of local residents in their business operations. To confirm the compliance status of existing suppliers and new suppliers, the officer responsible for procurement chairs the ESG Paper Procurement Committee annually.

2．Design for the Environment

In product development, we have adopted conservation of biodiversity as a theme in Design for the Environment. Biodiversity assessments are conducted across the entire product lifecycle.
The key points in assessment are 1. reduction of environmental impact from the production stage to minimize or reduce the impact on the ecosystem; 2. investigation of losses, reductions, splits, etc., in the growth and habitat of biological resources at procurement locations; and 3. availability of sustainable biological resources. Confirming that there are no issues in these three assessment areas ensures that our products and services are sustainable and have high environmental value.

Activities to promote greater environmental awareness among young people have been organized in cooperation with NPOs.

In contrast to the fact that climate change is a global environmental issue affected by the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, biodiversity is a highly regionalized issue, with problems in ecosystems largely affected by factors related to air, water, soil and minerals. Due to the importance of water for our business site operations, we are introducing activities with a focus on the relationship between our business operations and water.

In the production of films for the motion picture and photography that had formed the mainstay of its business operations since its foundation, the Fujifilm Group had made extravagant use of clean water. For this reason, the Group has taken early steps in reducing water use and in water recycling. In face of the recent growth in the interest focused on water risks as an important international issue, the Group is implementing further steps for the reduction and efficient use of water resources.

Due to concerns over the possible expansion of areas stricken by water shortages, in 2014 the Group created a matrix system for evaluating water risk that uses conditions in water stress regions and the impact on businesses based on water withdrawal as its two indicators, and has been continually evaluating water risks for all the Group’s business operations. Since 2024 we have been using Aqueduct's Baseline Water Stress (BWS) to conduct screening evaluations for water stressed regions using a two-indicator matrix. Based on the results of these evaluations, we prioritize and check water risks at each site in sequence.

(FUJIFILM MATERIAL MANUFACTURING CO., LTD. Division 8 / Kumamoto)