Initiatives to Realization of Carbon Neutrality

We achieved 100% use of renewable energy at five of our business sites, including the Group headquarters (CANON S TOWER) and Canon MJ's office buildings (Konan, Makuhari, Aomori, and Kumamoto offices), by acquiring the FIT Non-Fossil Certificate With Tracking^* for approximately nine months of electricity used over the period from April 2022 to December 2022.

At the Canon Marketing Japan Group (hereafter, the "Canon MJ Group"), we reduce our environmental impact by replacing multifunction printers (MFPs), lights, and other equipment used at each company with energy-efficient alternatives and by taking power-saving measures for lights and air conditioners.

At the Canon MJ Group, we reduce our environmental impact by improving our work process and workstyle, such as car-sharing sales and service vehicles and no overtime work days.

At Canon MJ, we have created Global Warming Action Plan and submitted them to the Tokyo Metropolitan Government under its Obligation to Reduce the Total Amount of Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Emissions Trading System. We disclose the following plans for the Canon MJ headquarters (CANON S TOWER), which is covered by the system.

In March 2023, Nishi-Tokyo Data Center Building No. 2, owned and operated by Canon IT Solutions Inc., was recognized by the Tokyo Metropolitan Governmentʼs Bureau of Environment as an Outstanding Specified Anti-Global Warming Facility (near-top-level business facility). As a result, along with the No. 1 building, which received the same designation in 2020, the both buildings of the NishiTokyo Data Center have been recognized as business sites that have an outstanding system in place for promoting measures against global warming. On the strength of its high-performance facilities and excellent operational quality, which have been refined through the operation of the No. 1 building, the Nishi-Tokyo Data Center has made contributions to reductions in our customersʼ CO₂ emissions.

In June 2023, Qualysite Technologies Inc., which operates the Nago Data Center, introduced a third-party photovoltaic ownership model (on-site PPA) KarE-roof^* provided by Okinawa New Energy Development Company, Incorporated, a member of the Okinawa Electric Power Company Group, and started using electricity with an installed photovoltaic power generation capacity of 80 kW. By using non-fossil certificates with tracking to cover the shortfall in renewable energy, it was able to operate using 100% renewable energy.

At the Canon MJ Group, we support overall CO₂ reduction activities in society to help prevent climate change. For this purpose, we have introduced a system, under which we implement carbon offset^*1 for lifecycle CO₂ emissions from office MFPs and some production printers.

At Canon Marketing Japan, we implement joint delivery with Epson Sales Japan Corporation. We have the cargoes of the two companies delivered together by Nippon Express, aiming for a higher loading ratio and the use of fewer delivery vehicles, things that were difficult to achieve when our cargoes were delivered alone.
At present, we are driving the use of the Joint Delivery Center in addition to the initiatives we have been taking since the start of joint delivery, that is, the use of chartered vehicles for joint deliveries to the same destinations and area-specific joint deliveries, or joint route deliveries of small lots for specific urban areas.
Joint delivery initiatives are aimed at reducing CO₂ emissions from our logistics operations and contributing to preventing climate change.

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