Konica Minolta Named Industry Leader on the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index, a Leading Global Index of ESG Investment, for Two Consecutive Years

1. Six Issues of Materiality Identified by Konica Minolta

Konica Minolta has identified the following six issues of materiality that need to be given priority in its CSR activities.

• Environment
• Social innovation
• Customer satisfaction and product safety
• Responsible supply chain
• Human capital
• Diversity

Konica Minolta is determined to promote group-wide efforts globally to address these issues of materiality with the aim of helping to solve global environmental issues, improving quality of life and eventually achieving the sustainable development goals (SDGs) by 2030.

2. Contribution to Solving Global Environmental Issues

The efforts of one company can make only a limited contribution to solving global environmental issues. Accordingly, Konica Minolta has been working together with its stakeholders, including business partners, customers and local communities, to reduce CO₂ emissions from external sources and achieve the Carbon Minus* status by sharing its technologies and know-how.

*Carbon Minus
Carbon Minus is Konica Minolta’s commitment to achieving an 80% reduction of CO₂ emissions throughout the lifecycles of its products by 2050 from the level of fiscal 2005, and to reducing CO₂ emissions by more than the amount of CO₂ emissions from its business activities through cooperation with stakeholders. If Konica Minolta can reduce its CO₂ emissions by 80% by 2050, the remaining 20% will be approximately equal to 400,000 tons. By sharing Konica Minolta’s technologies and know-how with stakeholders and reducing CO₂ emissions by 400,000 tons or more annually, the amount of CO₂ emissions resulting from Konica Minolta’s activities society-wide will be negative.

3. Development of Business to Contribute to Solving Social Issues

Konica Minolta believes that innovating the workflows of office, healthcare and other industrial workers will help solve various social issues. Thus the company is shifting its focus to a solution business that can contribute to solving social issues, by actively combining the latest digital technologies such as IoT, AI and robotics with its proprietary core technologies.

Specifically, Konica Minolta hopes to better cater to the needs of the aging society for nursing care by offering services to reduce the workload of nursing care staff.

With the full-fledged entry into precision medicine in fiscal 2017, Konica Minolta also aims to contribute to reducing medical costs to society by supporting pharmaceutical companies in drug discovery and enhancing the effectiveness of diagnostic services for individual patients.

■ About DJSI World

The DJSI World is the first global index to track the financial performance of the leading sustainability-driven companies worldwide and is provided by RobecoSAM, the Switzerland-based sustainability investment company, and S&P Dow Jones Indices in the U.S. It assesses corporate sustainability from economic, environmental and social developments. The index is highly recognized among global institutional investors who take a close look at CSR management and sustainability. In the annual review of the world’s 2,500 companies, 317 companies have been listed on the DJSI World and, within the list, 34 are Japanese companies including Konica Minolta.

■ Reference: Evaluation by External Parties

In addition to above, Konica Minolta is currently included in global ESG indexes and is ranked high in the CSR ratings, as shown below.