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• DOWA Group CSR
  • DOWA CSR
  • Greeting
  • What is Social Responsibility of DOWA?
  • Feature I Contribution to Earth’s environment
  • Aiming for No. 1 in Asia
  • Measures to Fight against Global Warming from Wastes
  • Feature II Fostering Rich Forests and Living Creatures
  • Fostering Rich Forests
  • Purify Water and Fostering Living Creatures.
  • Our Efforts towards Conservation of Biodiversity in Mine Development
  • What’s DOWA?
  • We Support the Infrastructures of the Resource Recycling Society.
  • DOWA Metals & Mining
  • DOWA Eco-System
  • DOWA Electronics Materials
  • DOWA Metaltech
  • DOWA Thermotech
  • As an Public Institution
  • CSR Guideline
  • Basic Environmental Policy
  • Management System
  • Environmental & Social Goals and their Present Statuses
• Social Performance
  • Relationship with Society
  • Relationship with Customers
  • Relationship with Employees
• Environmental Performance
  • Environmentally Conscious Business Management
  • Entire Overview of Business Activities and Environmental Load
  • INPUT
  • OUTPUT
  • Contribution to Global Warming Measures through Destruction of Chlorofluorocarbon
• Economic and Business Management Performance
  • Economic Report
  • Environmental Accounting
  • External Economic Benefit Evaluation EEBE(R)
• Business Overview
  • Corporate History and Environmental Commitment
  • Basic Requirements and Target Organization
  • Questionnaire Resulte

As a public institution in the society

Environmental & Social Goals and their Present Statuses

The DOWA group is engaged in various CSR activities, based on its medium-term environmental plan.

Among others we focus on two goals: reduction of CO2 emission and afforestation in our long term vision of fighting global warming.

In 2008, we achieved the goal of afforestation in Akita and Okayama prefectures and holding a tree planting ceremony together with local people in addition to 3.3% reduction of total CO2 emission year-over-year.

Title	Goal and Result	Evaluation	Page
“To offer products and services which contribute to building up a resource-recycling society”	○Evaluation of CO2 in products 　 ・Evaluation of metal recycling through the LCA (Life Cycle Assessment) cycle		-
“To reduce environmental impact and environmental risk in our business activities”	○Global Warming Measures Medium-term goal: average 10% reduction of CO2 emission compared to 2006 during 2008 ? 2012 CO2 emission 3.3％ reduction compared to 2007 CO2 emission per production unit 33％ increase compared to 2007 （Worsened due to metal price drop and reduction of production）		P40
	○Promotion of afforestation Maintenance of existing forests: 131.85 ha (Kosaka: 125.62 ha, Ohyu: 2.40 ha, Nibetsu: 3.83 ha) Planting of new young trees: Okayama Prefecture 23,100 trees, Akita Prefecture 1,596 trees		P11 P23
“To Promote Environmental Conservation Activities"	○Promotion of enlightenment on global warming measures Participation in “Team Minus 6%” Giving away eco-bags at the Annual Shareholder's Meeting Start of DOWA Eco-family Eco-event of “Parents and Children Environmental Classes” (at Headquarters in August)		P41 P26 P41 -
	○Activities Contributing to Local Communities ”Home Town Afforestation” planting ceremony (in Akita in November) Tree fostering meeting (June) and planting ceremony (December) of "Kojima Lake Blossom Corridor" (in Okayama Prefecture)		P11 P23

Our Vision to Fight Global Warming

The DOWA group set a goal of “10% reduction compared to 2006 during 2008 to 2012” as a goal to fight global warming and incorporated the goal in a business plan.

In addition to promoting energy saving in existing facilities and renewing existing power generation facilities and plants, we strive to conduct activities with a view to reduce CO2 by utilizing renewable energy and biodiesel and emission credits through the CDM business.

In the long term, we aim at being a carbon neutral company, thereby CO2 emission in connection with business activities is offset by reduction effect of global warming gas, through our efforts to reduce CO2 emission in business activities and reduce global warming gas in the CFC destruction business.

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