About GCI

Environmental Friendliness and Actual Achievements

Greening activities and initiatives for preventing global warming

GCI is committed to reducing our burden on the environment by planting trees within our business premises. In the National Award for Greenery Factory, which is awarded to factories with a proven track record in improving the environment inside and outside their premises through the promotion of greening activities, we received the JGRDC’s Chairperson’s Award in FY 2020 and METI Director-General’s Award in FY 2023 in high recognition of our activities to reduce our CO2 emissions, including greening of surrounding environments, such as rows of cherry blossom trees and greenery areas (36% of the site area) and the introduction of cogeneration equipment, as well as community interactions through the sponsoring of festivals and inviting local people or cleanup activities around the company.
In addition, to help prevent global warming, we work to reduce our energy usage in accordance with Japan’s Act on the Rational Use of Energy (Energy Conservation Act). As a result of these initiatives, we have been ranked as an S business operator*2 under the Agency for Natural Resources and Energy’s business classification evaluation system*1 up to the present since FY2015.

• *1 The Agency for Natural Resources and Energy’s businesses classification evaluation system categorizes all of the business operators that submit regular reports on their energy-saving measures at their plants in accordance with the Energy Conservation Act, into four classes: Classes S, A, B, and C to give different treatment to business operators according to the class. While publicizing and recognizing excellent business operators (S Class) in each industry, the Agency conducts strict inspections of business operators that are stagnant in energy saving (B Class) and the classes below.
• *2 [S Class business operator] = A business operator that has in its regular reports (as per the confirmation date at the end of fiscal year 2015) succeeded in achieving a reduction in five-year-average energy intensity of 1% percent or more per year (voluntary target) or has otherwise achieved benchmarked targets.[B Class business operator] = A business operator that has in its regular reports did not achieve the voluntary target and which has for the previous consecutive two years recorded an increase in energy intensity compared to the prior year or which has seen an increase in five-year average energy intensity of more than 5% per year.[A Class business operator] = A business operator that does not correspond to either S Class or B Class.[C Class business operator] = A business operator which, among B Class business operator is deemed to be making insufficient energy conservation efforts.