Environmental Management
Environmental Targets and Achievements
Basic stance
The NIDEC Group formulated a mid-term plan for environmental conservation activities in fiscal year 2004, and has since been working to improve key environmental items in three-year plans. In the Seventh Medium-Term Plan (2022-2024), that began in 2022, we have been working within four frameworks, including environmental management activities and natural environment conservation activities, with a focus on reducing the environmental impact of our business and contributing to the environment through our products.
So far, the mid-term environmental conservation activity plan has targeted NIDEC Group business sites, mainly in Japan and Asia. Since we were able to establish a system to collect environmental data from all NIDEC Group business sites for the first time in fiscal year 2022, we expanded the scope to all NIDEC Group business sites in October 2024 and revised our Seventh Medium-Term Plan for Environmental Conservation Activities. In this revision, the base year has been set to fiscal year 2022, and the target year has been aligned to fiscal year 2025, which is the target year for the KPI for materiality that is being incorporated into "Vision2025." In addition, with regard to our initiatives, we have expanded the materiality of our "contribution to a sustainable global environment" theme and have expanded our ongoing efforts to reduce our environmental impact.
Specifically, we have set new Scope 3 reduction targets based on SBTi certification, and have also set reduction targets for hazardous waste generation and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from the perspective of reducing environmental impact and preventing pollution. Additionally, as a step toward formulating and implementing measures to reduce risks related to biodiversity, we have added a goal of "100% implementation of water risk assessments" to our environmental management activities, similar to our materiality initiatives.
The NIDEC Group will continue to promote activities based on its medium-term environmental conservation activity plan, and will address the three themes of "realizing a decarbonized society," "management of waste and hazardous waste," and "addressing water risks" in response to its materiality of "contributing to a sustainable global environment."
■ Overview of the Seventh Mid-term Environmental Conservation Plan
The NIDEC Group's Seventh Mid-term Plan is an initiative aimed at reducing the environmental impact and contributing to a sustainable future. This plan is based on the following four main pillars, including reducing greenhouse gas emissions, introducing renewable energy, and developing environmentally friendly products, and is promoting activities to achieve the goals.
- - Reducing the environmental impact of our business
- - Environmental contribution through products
- - Environmental management activities
- - Natural environment conservation activities
■ For more information on materiality initiatives, please click here
Seventh Mid-term Environmental Conservation Plan and Progress of Materiality Initiatives
■Progress of the Seventh Mid-term Environmental Conservation Plan
First, in terms of reducing the environmental impact of our business, greenhouse gas emissions (Scope 1 and 2) in fiscal year 2023 will be reduced by 2.0% compared to fiscal year 2022, thanks to energy-saving activities through the optimization of usage conditions for production equipment and air conditioners, as well as the progress made in introducing renewable energy. These efforts also helped the renewable energy adoption rate increase from 7.8% to 12.5% in fiscal year 2022. In addition , we achieved reductions that exceeded our targets for greenhouse gas emissions (Scope 3), water withdrawals, and the generation of waste and valuables. On the other hand, in the fiscal year 2023, VOC emissions amounted to 93 tons, representing a 210% increase compared to the fiscal year 2022 due to the increase business sites. However, when comparing to the same business sites in the fiscal year 2022, there was a 6.7% reduction.
Next, in terms of contributing to the environment through our products, we are working to achieve targets linked to "Contributing to decarbonization through products," one of our materiality initiatives, in order to promote the development and dissemination of new products that contribute to the environment.
Furthermore, in terms of environmental management activities and natural environment conservation activities, we are working steadily to reduce the environmental impact in cooperation with each of our global business sites.
| Activity | Three-year targets (FY2025 goals) | FY2023 Results |
|---|---|---|
| Reduction of environmental impact in business activities | Promote activities for reducing environmental impact by improving energy efficiency and implementing renewable energy for achiving carbon neutrality in operations by FY2040. | See below |
| Greenhouse gases (Scope 1,2) |
15.8% reduction compared to fiscal year 2022 (total amount) | Down 2.0% |
| Greenhouse gases (Scope 3) |
9.4% reduction compared to fiscal year 2022 (total amount) | Down 13.3% |
| Renewable Energy | Renewable energy usage rate across the group: 40% | 12.5% |
| Water Withdrawal | Reduce emissions by 3% compared to the FY2022 standard by displaying basic units | Down 10.0% |
| Waste generated | Reduce emissions by 3% compared to the FY2022 standard by displaying basic units | Down 9.7% |
| Hazardous waste generation | Reduce emissions by 3% compared to the FY2022 standard by displaying basic units | Down 4.0% |
| VOC emissions | Reduce VOC emissions to less than previous year's level | Up 210% |
| Down 6.7% *1 | ||
| Environmental Contribution through Products | Promoting the development and dissemination of products that contribute to the environment | ー |
| Contribution to the automotive business | Introducing the "E-Axle" electric vehicle drive motor system will reduce CO₂ emissions by a cumulative total of 11,700,000 t-CO₂ from fiscal year 2020 to fiscal year 2025 Reducing CO₂ emissions by introducing electric power steering motors Cumulative total of 26,261,000 t-CO₂ from FY2020 to FY2025 Electric brake motors (EBB) will reduce CO₂ emissions by 10,029 thousand t-CO₂ over the two-year period from FY2024 to FY2025. |
10,213 thousand t-CO₂（total) |
| Contribution to the small precision motor business |
By introducing motors for small EVs, CO₂ emissions will be reduced by 35,000 t-CO₂/year Reduce CO₂ emissions by 32,000 t-CO₂/year through the introduction of electric motorcycle motors |
10,000 t-CO₂（total） |
| Environmental Management Activities | Implementing an environmental management system based on ISO14001 for at least 80% of employees | 80.5% |
| 100% water risk assessment | Progress: 70% | |
| Environmental conservation | Implement biodiversity conservation activities in cooperation with external organizations (forest development, tree planting, etc.). | Promote biodiversity conservation in 8 cases (forest management, tree planting, etc.) in collaboration with outside organizations |
| Environmental Education Support in Local Communities (Environmental Lessons for Elementary School Students, etc.) | Nidec held an environmental class for elementary school students 17 times in Japan. |
* Intensity units are based on sales for production bases and on the number of employees for non-production bases.