English | 简体中文 | 繁體中文 | 한국어 | 日本語
Monday, 31 August 2015, 13:20 JST
Share:
    

Source: Fujitsu Ltd
Fujitsu Raises Targets for Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions through ICT
Discloses fiscal 2014 results of Fujitsu Group Environmental Action Plan, Stage VII

TOKYO, Aug 31, 2015 - (JCN Newswire) - The Fujitsu Group is disclosing the results of its efforts to achieve the targets of its Fujitsu Group Environmental Action Plan (Stage VII), formulated to cover the three years from fiscal 2013. Among Fujitsu's 17 target items under the plan, two, namely "Contribution to Society by ICT: Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions" and "Design and Deliver Eco-efficient Products," have achieved results equivalent to their fiscal 2015 year-end targets. Accordingly, Fujitsu has revised its targets upward. In addition, in the category of "Efficient Business Operations: Data Centers," Fujitsu has completed the building of a new PUE(1) visualization tool, which it will use to expand upon its environmental performance improvement activities.

Key Achievements in Fiscal 2014

1. Contribution to Society by ICT: Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions

The Fujitsu Group brings quantitative visibility to the degree to which its customers' use of ICT contributes to a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, and works to increase that contribution. Because solutions that have a large impact on reducing greenhouse gas emissions, such as maintenance business solutions and cloud-based electronic medical record systems, were newly included in the calculation for fiscal 2014, the reduction in greenhouse gas emissions through the provision of ICT was13.97 million tons globally in fiscal 2014, or a cumulative 24.83 million tons since fiscal 2013. Therefore, the goal, established when the plan was formulated, of 26 million tons by the end of fiscal 2015 has now been revised to 38 million tons.

2. Design and Deliver Eco-efficient Products

The Fujitsu Group's promotion of eco-friendly design in the ICT products it offers, such as through the pursuit of the three Rs (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle) and resource conservation, serves to reduce the burden on the environment, while offering its customers the benefits of smaller, lighter, space-saving ICT products. Continuing on initiatives from fiscal 2013, Fujitsu in fiscal 2014 pushed ahead with its efforts to reduce the number of parts in newly developed products and to miniaturize products by reducing the size, thickness, and weight of parts and the space between parts. As a result, the goal for the end of fiscal 2015 of increasing new product resource efficiency(2) by 20% compared with fiscal 2011 has already been achieved, as it marked 33.6% in fiscal 2014. The goal has therefore been raised to a 35% improvement.

3. Efficient Business Operations: Data Centers

In the Fujitsu Group Environmental Action Plan (Stage VII), Fujitsu set a new goal to improve the environmental performance of its major datacenters, in keeping with the recent expansion of cloud services and the concurrent increase in datacenter energy consumption. In fiscal 2014, the Fujitsu Group built its own PUE visualization tool into its Eco-Management Dashboard(3), and commenced its operation from May 2015. With this tool, each datacenter is not only able to calculate and display its energy utilization status and PUE month by month but can also compare its level of environmental consciousness across multiple datacenters. This has led Fujitsu to expand on initiatives to improve environmental performance in fiscal 2015.

The detailed results achieved in fiscal 2014 for the Fujitsu Group Environmental Action Plan (Stage VII) are presented in the Fujitsu Group Environmental Report 2015, available on Fujitsu's website from today.

For More Information

- Fujitsu Group Environmental Report 2015
- Fujitsu Group Environmental Action Plan (Stage VII)
- Fujitsu's Environmental Activities

(1) PUE

Power Usage Effectiveness. A measure of datacenter power efficiency. It is the ratio of the total amount of energy used by the datacenter to the amount used by its ICT equipment. Lower values indicate low power usage by non-ICT equipment, indicating a power efficient datacenter.

(2) Resource Efficiency

A unique measure calculated by Fujitsu, with the environmental burden created by the use and disposal of the materials (resources) making up a product as the denominator, and the value of the product as the numerator.

(3) Eco-Management Dashboard

A platform system that aggregates a wide variety of environmental information and management information to bring about overall optimization of production and management. The Fujitsu Group makes the know-how it has gained from its internal initiatives available in its Fujitsu Sustainability Solution Eco-Management Dashboard.

Contact:
Fujitsu Limited
Public and Investor Relations
Tel: +81-3-3215-5259
URL: www.fujitsu.com/global/news/contacts/

Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd.
ICT Systems Laboratories 
Server Technologies Lab
E-mail: Retimer_ISSCC2015@ml.labs.fujitsu.com



Topic: Press release summary
Source: Fujitsu Ltd

Sectors: Cloud & Enterprise, IT Individual
https://www.acnnewswire.com
From the Asia Corporate News Network


Copyright © 2024 ACN Newswire. All rights reserved. A division of Asia Corporate News Network.

 
Fujitsu Ltd Links

http://www.fujitsu.com

https://plus.google.com/+Fujitsu

https://www.facebook.com/FujitsuJapan

https://twitter.com/Fujitsu_Global

https://www.youtube.com/user/FujitsuOfficial

https://www.linkedin.com/company/fujitsu/

Fujitsu Ltd Related News
2024年4月19日 10時00分 JST
富士通、世界初 形式の異なる企業のデジタルアイデンティティー証明書を変換する技術を開発し欧州データスペースへの接続実証に成功
Friday, 19 April 2024, 10:17 JST
Fujitsu develops technology to convert corporate digital identity credentials, enabling participation of non-European companies in European data spaces
2024年4月18日 11時00分 JST
富士通とオラクル、日本市場におけるデータ主権要件に対応するソブリンクラウドの提供に向け戦略的協業
Thursday, 18 April 2024, 11:14 JST
Fujitsu and Oracle collaborate to deliver sovereign cloud and AI capabilities in Japan
Thursday, 11 April 2024, 15:10 JST
DOCOMO, NTT, NEC and Fujitsu Develop Top-level Sub-terahertz 6G Device Capable of Ultra-high-speed 100 Gbps Transmission
More news >>
Copyright © 2024 ACN Newswire - Asia Corporate News Network
Home | About us | Services | Partners | Events | Login | Contact us | Cookies Policy | Privacy Policy | Disclaimer | Terms of Use | RSS
US: +1 214 890 4418 | China: +86 181 2376 3721 | Hong Kong: +852 8192 4922 | Singapore: +65 6549 7068 | Tokyo: +81 3 6859 8575