Furukawa Electric Group promotes environmental activities based on the basic environmental philosophy. The supreme advisory body in charge of the environment who is called the “Furukawa Electric Group Environmental Committee” is promoting the environmental management. The Corporate Vice President, who is also General Manager of the Risk Management Division , serves as the chairperson, and the committee consists of the General Managers from each business division and each corporate division responsible for management. The progress is reported quarterly to the Board of Directors level.

In order to ensure that the environmental management can be implemented smoothly, the environmental issues are specifically examined cross-departmentally in the “Council of Environmental Managers” which is consisting of the environmental manager of each business division and corporate division.

Furukawa Electric Group conducts environmental education to raise the environmental awareness of employees and to share the necessary knowledge for our environmental activities.
In fiscal 2020, the ISO 14001 internal environmental auditor training course for newly appointed personnel was held online as a social distancing measure, with 21 employees participating. At the beginning of the fiscal year, we carry out training for each level of the hierarchy, including new employee training, training for newly appointed managers, and Monozukuri staff training for mid-level staff.
During Environment Month in June 2020, each employee watched environment-related videos, discussed the environment with family and co-workers, and carried out activities to raise awareness of promotion of environmental initiatives based on what they could contribute themselves.

Furukawa Electric Group started the Environmental Activity Awards in fiscal 2010. In fiscal 2018, the name was changed to the ESG Commendations "Environmental Contribution Award", aiming to raise environmental awareness and improve the standard of our environmental activities.
In fiscal 2020, one excellence award and three effort awards were awarded through a screening committee. The excellence award was given to FALP*, an overseas group member under the Automotive Products Division, in recognition of "energy conservation activities and introduction of renewable energy" for a project that contributes to reduced power consumption and CO₂ emissions.
*FALP: Furukawa Automotive Systems Lima Philippines, Inc.

Furukawa Electric Group has introduced environmental accounting to quantitatively grasp the costs and effects of environmental conservation activities, and is striving for efficient and effective environmental activities. Our calculations are based on "Environmental Accounting Guidelines 2005", published by the Ministry of the Environment, and these cover Furukawa Electric and 20 Japan group companies.
In fiscal 2020, environmental conservation costs totaled 2.57 billion yen in expenses and 1.12 billion yen in environment-related investments. Compared with the previous year, expenses decreased by 280 million yen and investments decreased by 250 million yen.