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CTI Engineering Group Challenges for Sustainability
CTI Engineering Group Challenges for Sustainability Promotion Plan
On June 22, 2022, the CTI Engineering Group announced the CTI Engineering Group Challenges for Sustainability as part of our commitment to achieving sustainability through infrastructure development.
To achieve the goals of the declaration, the Representative Director and Chief Executive Officer serves as the chairperson of the Sustainability Committee where Challenges for Sustainability promotion goals are clarified and the following specific promotion plan for achieving its goals by 2030 have been established.
1. Challenges for Sustainability Promotion Goals
Challenges for Sustainability Promotion Goals 2030
To achieve net zero, the CTI Engineering Group is shifting to sustainable methods in our activities in the medium term and is thoroughly committed to ensuring that CTI Engineering Group services facilitate the improvement of social infrastructure sustainability.
- ・Achieve net zero greenhouse effect gas emissions in business activities by 2030 (Scope 1 and 2)
- ・Contribute to improving sustainability in local communities
Challenges for Sustainability Promotion Goals 2050
The CTI Engineering Group will ensure sustainability in our own supply chain and the value chain, promoting the development of business hinging on activities that contribute to sustainability in all forms such as net zero in society, resource recycling, and coexisting with nature, with a focus on our consulting services.
- ・Achieve net zero greenhouse effect gas emissions including the supply chain by 2050 (up to Scope 3)
- ・Contribute to improving sustainability in local communities
Summary of Challenges for Sustainability Promotion Goals
2. Specific Promotion Plan for Achieving Challenges for Sustainability Promotion Goals 2030
2.1 2030 Net zero Achievement Plan
The goal of reaching net zero greenhouse effect gas emissions from the current 6,300 t-CO2 in CTI Engineering Group overall (consolidated base) business activities will be achieved by strengthening energy saving measures and compensatory measures.
Strengthened energy saving measures
Reduction goals will be set for each CTI Engineering Group (consolidated base) company to engage in reducing greenhouse effect gas emissions related to business activities by promoting the following energy saving measures.
Emission Reduction Measures
| Category | Group overall reduction goals | Emission Reduction measures |
|---|---|---|
| Electricity usage | Reduction: Approx. 1,810 t-CO2 (Reduction of 10% or more compared to 2021) |
・Improve basic employee behavior ・Use top energy saving products ・100% LED lighting usage ・Install solar power generating equipment at our buildings (and land) ・ZEB at our buildings |
| Fuel usage | Reduction: Approx. 1,100 t-CO2 (Reduction of 90% or more compared to 2021) |
・Improve basic employee behavior ・Use top energy saving products ・100% usage of next-generation vehicles such as fuel cell and electric models |
Offsetting measures
Procure renewable energy sources or purchase credits, invest in JCM business, and compensate for reduction equivalent to 3,400t-CO2 to achieve net zero at the CTI Engineering Group by 2030. Concrete compensatory measures will be selected not only for cost effectiveness, but also for their level of contributing to building a sustainable society domestically and abroad.
Offsetting Measures for Consideration
| Category | Details | Effects (excluding CO2 reduction) |
|---|---|---|
| Procure renewable energy sources | Add value to renewable energy or procure renewable energy sources | Promote development of domestic renewable energy power generating facilities |
| Purchase J credit | Introduce renewable energy or energy saving equipment and purchase credits resulting from forest maintenance | Expand investment in domestic renewable energy equipment and energy saving equipment and promote forest maintenance among companies and local governments |
| Purchase JCM credit | Purchase credits issued by JCM (Joint Crediting Mechanism: credit system between two countries) | Promote development of overseas renewable energy equipment and energy saving equipment, etc. |
| Certify absorbed amount via forest development | Engage in forest development based on certification systems established at the local government level and certify absorbed amounts | Promote local forest development on our own and contribute to building a green infrastructure |
2.2 Local community Sustainability Promotion Plan
To contribute to improved sustainability in the local community, we will promote proposals that contribute to sustainability in our primary business of consulting services while engaging in business and R&D to contribute to sustainability and actively investing in personnel training.
Promoting consulting services that contribute to sustainability
In individual consulting tasks related to infrastructure development, we will effectively utilize the ISO 14001 series, monitoring proposal details and the number of proposals while promoting horizontal rollout of advanced initiatives within the Group to promote business proposals in consideration of the five challenges.
Five Challenges in Consulting Services
- (1) Propose disaster prevention and disaster mitigation measures utilizing natural buffer powers and restorative forces against outside forces
- (2) Propose measures that contribute to reduced greenhouse effect gases across the infrastructure development life cycle
- (3) Propose measures that help reduce waste across the infrastructure development life cycle
- (4) Propose measures that contribute to coexistence with the natural environment across the infrastructure development life cycle
- (5) Promote measures that contribute to the revitalization of communities using ecosystem services brought about by natural capital
Promoting investment that contributes to sustainability
We will promote business investments that contribute to improved sustainability in local communities (green business investments), related R&D investments, and personnel development investments.
(1) Green business investments
We have positioned investment in businesses to achieve the CTI Engineering Group Challenges for Sustainability, such as contributing to achieving net zero at the CTI Group by reducing greenhouse effect gas emissions, improving community value through the manifestation of multi-faceted, natural functionality, and community revitalization through community connections, as green business investments, which will be actively promoted based on the following policies.
Green Business Investment Policies
| Category | Basic policies |
|---|---|
| Investment target | (1) Business that contributes to decarbonization, resource recycling, coexistence with nature, safety and security, and revitalization in local communities (2) Business with advanced leadership and modeling capabilities that shows medium and long-term promise in improving corporate value |
| Selection and monitoring of investment targets | (1) Investment targets will be suggested and selected by the Sustainability Committee and then determined after a vetting process by the Board of Directors. (2) Sustainability creation effects of invested businesses will be periodically monitored. |
(2) R&D investment and personnel investment
A sustainability framework will be established for R&D investments and personnel development investments to promote these areas in contributing to building a sustainable society. Initiatives are under way at the Research Center for Sustainable Communities (kokudobunka kenkyujo) to fund young researchers from outside the Group and develop an environment for hiring postdocs, all as part of bolstering personnel for increasing sustainability in society overall.
2.3 Information disclosure and governance system
Timely and appropriate disclosure of non-financial information
Due to accelerating activities by the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) and the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD), we will also mention green infrastructure-related initiatives in line with the four pillars of the TCFD declaration and the recommended disclosure details.
Also, by complying with the request to handle the Carbon Disclosure Project’s (CDP) climate change questionnaire, we will endeavor to raise awareness and improve in-house knowledge on ESG investments.
Outside certification related to Challenges for Sustainability
To actively promote initiatives based on the CTI Engineering Group Challenges for Sustainability and show commitment to sustainable management goals, we aim to obtain certification from the following outside organizations.
Intended Certification Systems
| Name | System summary |
|---|---|
| SBT (Science Based Targets) | Greenhouse effect gas emission reduction targets businesses set as goals 5 to 15 years in the future to match the standards required by the Paris Accords. |
| RE Action – Declaring 100% Renewable | A framework that shows the will and action to shift electricity usage to 100% renewable energy and promote 100% usage of renewable energy. |
Governance system
The Sustainability Committee will be established on the same level as management meetings and incorporating sustainability into management framework will bolster the governance system.
Awards and other incentives will be granted after a vetting process by the board of directors regarding research and technical development, personnel training, and business proposals, etc., that deliver major improvements to reduction of greenhouse effect gas emissions, resource recycling rates, reduction of water resource usage, and ecosystem services, etc.,
