Recognised as a global leader in combating climate change
Konica Minolta, Inc. (Konica Minolta) has been awarded a global leadership position on the Climate A List by CDP, an international not-for-profit organisation engaged in activities to realise a sustainable economy, for the sixth time.
- Since 2018, the European headquarters has been carbon neutral.
- The European headquarters as well as its subsidiaries in Belgium, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Germany, the United Kingdom, Austria, Sweden, Norway, Spain and most locations in France are using electricity from renewable sources. With the global joining of RE100 the company is committed to sourcing 100% renewable energy by 2050.
- Since the introduction of its "
Enabling Carbon Neutrality" Programme in 2015, the company and its customers together have offset more than 40,000 tons of unavoidable CO2 emissions. - In 2019, Konica Minolta introduced
bizhub ECO, a service which includes a pre-set eco configuration of colour multifunctional peripherals (MFPs) and a tree sponsorship in cooperation with Treedom. - In 2020, Konica Minolta introduced AIRe Link, a remote visual support tool that has
saved more than 853,000 kilometres of travels to customers, 3,000 on-site customers which means that around 104 tons of CO2 emissions have not been produced. - In order to shift transportation from road to rail or waterborne, Konica Minolta uses barges sailing along the Rhine River in Europe as a means of transport from the port of Rotterdam in the Netherlands to its base warehouse in Emmerich, Germany.
FTSE4Good Index Series (UK) | Included in the index consecutively since 2003 |
FTSE Blossom Japan Index (UK) | Included in the index consecutively since its establishment in 2017 |
MSCI Japan ESG Select Leaders Index (USA) | Included in the index consecutively since its establishment in 2017 |
MSCI Japan Empowering Women Index (USA) | Included in the index consecutively since its establishment in 2017 |
Dow Jones Sustainability Index (USA) | Asia Pacific Index (DJSI Asia Pacific): Included in the index consecutively since 2009 |
S&P/JPX Carbon Efficient Index (USA, Japan) | Included in the index consecutively since its establishment in 2018 |
S&P Global (USA) | Included in SAM Sustainability Award consecutively since 2013 (Four times as Gold and five times as Silver) |
Corporate Knights (Canada) | Ranked among the Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations in the World (2011, 2019, 2020 and 2021) |
ISS-oekom (Germany) | Maintained the highest Prime Status since 2011 |
CDP (UK) | Included on the Climate A List (2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2020 and 2021) |