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Biodiversity Conservation

 

Minimizing the Negative Impacts on Biodiversity that Supports Our Life and Daily Activities

To realize a sustainable society, we must avoid or minimize negative impacts on biodiversity, which supports our life and daily activities, in the areas of food, pharmaceutical products, energy, and disaster reduction.

Note: The article on this page is taken from Sustainability Report 2011.

Biodiversity guidelines aimed at passing on the gifts of nature to future generations

Since its establishment, the Fujifilm Group has been acutely aware that all of its business has benefited from nature while at the same time impacting on it, and so has engaged in various environmental protection activities based on the belief that environmental consciousness and environmental protection are at the core of our corporate activities. As part of our efforts, in June 2009, we clarified our guidelines for cross-group efforts toward biodiversity conservation and created “The Fujifilm Group Basic Concepts and Action Guidelines for Biodiversity Conservation” (hereafter “Guidelines for Biodiversity”). Both within and outside the company, we are engaging in initiatives for preservation and maintenance of the ecosystem, which we humans enjoy today, for future generations.

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Seeing things in a broader perspective

[Photo]Yumiko Tsuruda “The Nature Conservation” Chief Editor The Nature Conservation Society of Japan

Ms. Yumiko Tsuruda
“The Nature Conservation” Chief Editor
The Nature Conservation Society of Japan

Pure water is one of the most important natural resource for the Fujifilm Group. Biodiversity supports the environment in which pure water is found. In terms of environmental impacts of chemical substances, assessing the impact on aquatic organisms and maintaining a viable habitat will lead to supporting the foundation of those regions natural ecosystems.

Fujifilm will revive the regions, beautiful natural environment by breaking away from the perspective of Biodiversity as simply risk management. I hope that Fujifilm will communicate and provide this new value as part of the region's allure.

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Activities at The Safety Evaluation Center

Evaluation of the impacts of chemical substances on the ecosystem from a broad, long-term perspective

To participate in international efforts for producing and using chemical products while minimizing their risks toward people's health and the environment, the Fujifilm Group conducts its business with action guidelines that advocate risk reduction through improved management of chemical substances and the chemical content of products. The Safety Evaluation Center plays an important role in this regard.

To conserve biodiversity, it is necessary to understand the effects of chemical substances on the ecosystem. The Center received a certificate of GLP(*1) compliance from the former Ministry of International Trade and Industry in 1986 and started tests to assess the ways in which chemical substances decomposed in the ecosystem or accumulated in organisms (carp). It has now accumulated a large amount of data from such tests. The Center also received a certificate of GLP compliance from the Ministry of the Environment in 2005, at which time it began testing the effects of chemicals on aquatic organisms (algae, daphnia, and fish) in the ecosystem and is currently studying various impacts on the ecosystem. Furthermore, in order to conduct assessments from a long-term perspective, we are considering introducing chronic toxicity tests that determine the propagation of aquatic organisms.

We will continue to contribute to the protection of the ecosystem and biodiversity by assessing the effects of the production and use of chemical substances on the aquatic environment and other parts of the ecosystem from a broad, long-term perspective.

*1 Certificate of GLP (Good Laboratory Practice)
Standards established regarding the organization, facilities and equipment, procedures, etc.
that a testing facility should have in order to ensure the reliability of test results.

[Photo]A test using daphnia

A test using daphnia

[Photo]We conduct a wide range of tests using aquatic organisms such as algae and fish (the photo is of a fish tank)

We conduct a wide range of tests
using aquatic organisms such as algae and fish.
(The photo is of a fish tank.)


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Activities at Fuji Xerox

Biodiversity-conscious land management at production sites

[Photo]Scenes from an assessment at the Suzuka site

Scenes from an assessment at the Suzuka site

While Fuji Xerox was previously aware of the importance of biodiversity, its relevant activities were limited to requesting its paper suppliers to follow its rules on paper procurement, complying with laws and regulations, and preventing destructive impacts of deforestation on the ecosystem, and the voluntary participation of employees in activities to protect mountains near villages.

As the role of companies in conserving biodiversity became clear through, for example, the introduction of the Ministry of Environment's Guidelines for Private Sector Engagement in Biodiversity, we recognized the need for our active participation in this area. Judging that we needed to reexamine our efforts in this area, before fiscal 2010 we commissioned experts to make an assessment of our business from the standpoint of biodiversity conservation. The assessment revealed that we did not completely understand the land usage at our large-scale sites for production or product development. In response, we investigated the land usage at our domestic and overseas production/product development sites and checked for risks to biodiversity in fiscal 2010. Fortunately, the assessment found no operation-related risks that would disturb the ecosystem.

At the same time, it was suggested that we should contribute to the restoration of regional biodiversity by utilizing the land at our operation sites and use the assessment results to educate our employees. We are now creating guidelines for land usage so that each site can actively promote the conservation of biodiversity. Also, to avoid risks and contribute to the restoration of biodiversity from the standpoint of the entire supply chain, we are clarifying the actions to be taken toward biodiversity conservation and will aim constantly to improve them within the existing environmental management system.

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Special Efforts

Note: The article on this page is taken from Sustainability Report 2011.

Related Information

Environmental Conservation and Protection (Fujifilm Group Code of Conduct)

A Code of Conduct has been established to instill environmental awareness in each and every employee.

Our Approach to CSR

Enhancing the quality of life and the sustainable development of society.

Fujifilm Group Green Policy

The entire Fujifilm Group is striving for environmental quality in products, services and corporate activities.


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