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Astellas understands that maintaining a healthy global environment is an essential theme for building a sustainable society, and is also an important element in maintaining sound business activities. Astellas must fulfill its corporate social responsibilities to sustainably grow by complying with legal regulations covering various environmental issues.
Going forward, Astellas will formulate its vision for being a responsible corporation based on a long-term global perspective that keeps future generations in mind. At the same time, we will continue efforts to address regional social issues and pursue corporate activities in harmony with the global environment.
Astellas Environment, Health & Safety Policy
Basic Approach to Responding to Climate Change
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Totals and tallies of shares may not always match due to the effect of rounding.
Interaction between Astellas and the Environment(Figures for 2016)
As detailed below, the business activities of Astellas impinge on the environment throughout all the fields in which it operates, including research, manufacturing, sales, and product distribution.
Direct interaction
| INPUT
|
OUTPUT | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Energy | GHGs (Scope 1, 2)
|
||
| Electricity |
198,911MWh |
Facilities |
163,387tons |
| City gas |
19,822 thousand m3 |
Sales fleets |
4,733tons |
| LPG | 2,102 tons | Pollutants (atmosphere)
|
|
| LNG | 2,459 tons | SOx | 0 ton |
| Fuel oil | 0 kiloliter | NOx | 29 tons |
| Kerosene | 8 kiloliters | VOC | 54 tons |
| Diesel oil | 6 kiloliters | Pollutants (water body) | |
| Gasoline | 2,057 kiloliters | BOD
|
12 tons |
| Purchased heat energy (hot/cold water) |
6,029 GJ |
COD | 20 tons |
| Resources
|
Water discharge (Drainage into rivers) |
6,984 thousand m3 | |
| Water | 8,477 thousand m3 | Water discharge (Drainage into sewerage system) |
225 thousand m3 |
| Raw materials(determine weight) | 5,121 tons | Waste material
|
|
| Raw materials (Determine volume) |
732 kiloliters | Volume of waste generated | 11,836 tons |
| Copier paper | 209 tons | Volume of waste discharged | 11,737 tons |
| Landfill volume | 138 tons | ||
| INPUT
|
OUTPUT | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Energy | GHGs (Scope 1, 2)
|
||
| Electricity | 39,804 MWh | Facilities | 10,526 tons |
| City gas | 3,201 thousand m3 | Pollutants (atmosphere) | |
| LPG | 6 tons | SOx | 0 ton |
| Diesel oil | 96 kiloliters | NOx | 3 tons |
| Gasoline | 12 kiloliters | VOC | 4 tons |
| Purchased heat energy (steam) | 19,123 GJ | Pollutants (water body) BOD | 5 tons |
| Resources | Waste water discharge (Drainage into sewage system) | 246 thousand m3 | |
| Water | 246 thousand m3 | Waste materials | |
| Volume of waste generated
|
2,010 tons | ||
| Recycled volume | 262 tons | ||
| INPUT | OUTPUT | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Energy | GHGs (Scope 1, 2) | |||
| Electricity | 31,774 MWh | Facilities | 15,100 tons | |
| City gas | 1,232 thousand m3 | Sales Fleets | 22,555 tons | |
| Diesel oil | 3,248 kiloliters | |||
| Gasoline | 6,079 kiloliters | |||
| Bioethanol | 379 kiloliters | |||
Understanding GHG Emissions
GHG emissions resulting from the business activities of Astellas is reported to be 216 thousand tons globally. Among these, approximately 83% are from business sites that are understood to fall within the scope of the Environmental Action Plan. (Other than “Other” in the graph below).
Details on energy usage for calculating GHG emission
| Upstream Scope3 emissions | ||
|---|---|---|
| Category | GHG emissions | |
| 1 | Purchased goods and services | 111,352 tons |
| 2 | Capital goods | 67,645 tons |
| 3 | Fuel and energy related activities (not included in Scope1 and Scope2) | 27,464 tons |
| 4 | Transportation and distribution | |
| Truck transportation of raw materials | 237 tons | |
| Plant → warehouse | 228 tons | |
| Warehouse | 955 tons | |
| Warehouse → wholesalers | 2,620 tons | |
| 5 | Waste generated in operation | 4,461 tons |
| 6 | Business travel (by airplane) | 37,933 tons |
| 7 | Employee commuting | 2,567 tons |
| 8 | Leased assets | Not relevant |
| Downstream Scope3 emissions | ||
| Category | GHG emissions | |
| 9 | Transportation and distribution | Not relevant |
| 10 | Processing of sold products | Not relevant |
| 11 | Use of sold products | No emissions’ results |
| 12 | End-of-life treatment of sold products | 705 tons |
| 13 | Leased assets | Not relevant |
| 14 | Franchises | Not relevant |
| 15 | Investments | Not relevant |
