Environmental Management
SoftBank considers global environmental problems to be important management issues and has established environmental action guidelines and built an environmental management system and management structure to promote efforts by all executives and employees to reduce our environmental impact.
Environmental action guidelines
SoftBank has established these guidelines under the oversight of our Board of Directors to ensure that all of our directors and employees work together to reduce our environmental impact and fulfill our accountability for the implementation of these policies. We proactively work to maintain and preserve the global environment through our business activities, contributing to the continuous development of a sustainable society.
The scope of these guidelines includes group companies, suppliers, and business partners, covering all facilities and equipment, distribution and logistics in general, business expansion through M&A and the establishment of JVs, and entry into new businesses.
- Comply with environmental laws, ordinances and other regulations and requirements.
- Establish an Environment Committee under the oversight of the Executive Officer in Charge of ESG to establish an environmental management system, set environmental targets for reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, energy saving, resource saving, waste reduction, and water use reduction, and to continue to improve our environmental performance to solve issues such as climate change countermeasures and resource depletion.
- Promote environmental-friendly green procurement in our purchase of office equipment and supplies.
- Strive to provide telecommunications services, etc. which help reduce the environmental load and contribute to the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions across society as a whole.
- Take into account the business impact on ecosystems and promote initiatives to conserve biodiversity.
- We strive to provide environmental education to our employees while also announcing the details of these guidelines and our environmental information both internally and externally. We will consult with external stakeholders regarding the implementation of these guidelines and work together to reduce our environmental impacts.
Environmental management system
SoftBank has formulated environmental action guidelines and established an environmental management system and administrative framework to promote environmentally-conscious business activities and actively engage in environmental conservation activities. We are aiming to improve the environmental friendliness of our business activities by focusing on the prevention of global warming which is particularly important for its impact on the environment, promotion of mobile phone recycling, conservation of resources, restriction of the usage and inclusion as well as the emission of specified toxic substances defined in the RoHS Directive*.
Moreover, as the public awareness of environmental issues grows, corporations are facing more diverse demands to provide environmentally-friendly products and services and implement smarter business practices through regulations governing environmental conservation, energy conservation, and resource saving.
As public awareness of environmental issues grows, corporations are facing more diverse demands to provide environmentally friendly products and services, to adhere to regulations governing environmental protection, and to achieve energy conservation and resource saving through smart business practices. To respond swiftly to these trends and demands, SoftBank has incorporated a PDCA (plan, execution, confirmation, improvement) cycle to guide our environmental management system and improvements are made on a continuous basis.
In order to promote our environmental management system, we have obtained ISO 14001 certification, the international standard for environmental management systems, for our 19 business sites, including our head office building, network center, and data center, which are designated as Type 1 or Type 2 energy management designated factories, etc.
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- *EU regulations which prohibit the inclusion of toxic substances in electrical and electronic devices.
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For more information on environmental management system certification organizations and our status of acquisition, see here.
Environmental management structure
To promote group-wide environmental conservation activities, SoftBank has established the Environment Committee covering environmental matters under the supervision of the Executive Officer in Charge of ESG, which complies with ISO14001 international standard.
