The Paris Agreement and the UN’s 2030 Agenda have helped push climate change to the forefront of international attention. We aim to cut greenhouse gas emissions in our business activities as part of our effort to achieve sustained business growth.

Until now, we have used emissions per ton of output as a metric to track our progress in reducing greenhouse gas emissions from plants. We have met our targets on this metric. However, in reality, we have not yet made a significant reduction; because our output has risen year by year, total emissions have stayed largely at the same level.
　Another issue concerns pig farming. We plan to expand our pig farming supply chains in Japan, but this expansion will increase methane emissions from enteric fermentation, leaving a greater carbon footprint. Accordingly, when measuring our environmental performance, we will need to consider scope 3 emissions— emissions throughout the supply chain (including procurement, distribution, and consumption). To that end, we are now discussing new goals and the scope we should manage.