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Overview Action Data & Prole
Environmental Conservation
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Quantifying our “reduction contribution” Scope 3 disclosure
Offering new approaches to work through
fusion of paper and electronic documents
• Reduction contribution results in FY2014
The Ricoh Group calculates the lighter environmental
impact that society achieves through the use of Ricoh
products and solutions as its “reduction contribution.”
In scal 2014, the reduction contribution reached the
equivalent of 395,000 tons of CO2, which surpasses
aggregate CO2 emissions generated by the Ricoh
Group’s manufacturing sites around the world. Going
forward, we will continue to boost our reduction
contribution, while steadily working to minimize the
environmental burden caused by our own business
activities, and thereby help to minimize the impact that
society as a whole exerts on the environment. ➤ WEB2
We pinpoint the overall effect of our business
activities as a corporate group on the environment
and, seeking to successfully shrink our footprint, we
beganusingtheEcoBalancemethodinscal1999
to evaluate product lifecycle environmental impact
and disclose the results. In recent years, heightened
social awareness of environmental issues has manifest
a need to assess and disclose emissions across the
entire supply chain, not just those generated through
our own operations. This has become a component
of how a company is perceived by society. Since
scal 2013, we have undertaken Scope 3 disclosure,
following the calculation standards of various major
guidelines*7.
In scal 2014, Scope 3 emissions accounted for
84.1% of total greenhouse gas emissions associated
with Ricoh Group business activities. Going forward,
we will continue to pinpoint and disclose Scope 3
emission status and strive to reduce emissions in key
categories.
Ricoh Lease, a member of the Ricoh Group,
calculates its own Scope 3 emissions, and marked a
rst among non-manufacturing companies in Japan
with full-category disclosure in September 2013.
The results led to the discovery that emissions from
products and services purchased through leasing
contracts and from customer use of leased products
are extremely high. Going forward, Ricoh Lease’s goal
will be to bring these levels down, and in cooperation
with vendors it will reinforce activities, especially
efforts to encourage small and midsized corporate
customers to select energy-saving products. This
should lead to a reduction in CO2 emissions. ➤ WEB3
Within the Ricoh Group, we have developed various
technologies, such as two-sided and intensive-
copying features as well as rewritable media
applications, and offer products incorporating these
technologies to our customers to reduce the envi-
ronmental impact caused by paper use at ofces and
in meetings. We are presenting customers with the
idea of paperless conferences as a new approach to
work that fuses paper and electronic documents.
 Atthe67thannualmeetingoftheInternational
MonetaryFund(IMF)andtheWorldBankGroup,
heldinTokyoinOctober2012,andatthe8thAPEC
Transportation Ministerial Meeting, held in September
2013, Ricoh was tasked with installation and manage-
ment of the document environment, combining new
projection systems and visual communication products
and applications to run meetings that cut way back
onpaperuse.Overthethree-dayAPECmeeting,
paper usage was down by about 12,000 sheets,
equivalent to 55kg of CO2 emissions.
We have also embraced the paperless method
in-house, at management meetings, and cut paper
usage by 120,600 sheets over the year in review,
fora reduction effect equivalent to 553kg of CO2
emissions. We will continue to actively encourage
our customers to follow our lead, because if more
companies conduct paperless meetings, we will see
a bigger decrease in environmental impact from
business activities.
*7 Calculationsinaccordance
with the Greenhouse Gas
Protocol’s corporate value
chain (Scope 3) accounting
and reporting standard
and guidelines published
by Japan’s Ministry of
theEnvironmentandthe
MinistryofEconomy,Trade
and Industry on supply chain
greenhouse gas emission
accounting
➤WEB2Evaluationofcontribution
: www.ricoh.com/environment/management/reduction.html
➤WEB3Ricoh Group Scope 3 emissions : www.ricoh.com/environment/data/scope3.html
➤WEBProducts—EnergyConservation/PreventionofGlobalWarming : www.ricoh.com/environment/product/energy/
• Ratio of greenhouse gas emissions across Ricoh Group’s
supply chain
Amount of
contribution
(Thousand tons,
CO2 equivalent)
GHG emitted
from the Group’s
manufacturing
sites around
the world
Resource conservation
of products −53
Total: −395
Total: 338
Solutions
− 206
Energy-saving
products
−136
(Thousand t-CO
2
e)
Purchased
goods and
services
25.1%
Capital goods
8.7%
Upstream
transportation
and distribution
14.0%
Use of sold products
19.6%
Downstream
leased assets
7.4%
Other 9.3%
Total GHG
3,091.1
thousand tons
Scope 1
5.9%
Scope 2
9.9%
Scope 3 (Total)
84.1%
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