Hitachi has developed its Environmental Vision and long-term environmental targets, “Hitachi Environmental Innovation 2050”, which outline the company’s direction and ambitions toward FY 2050.

At IT departments, we are continuing and expanding the promotion of “IT operations with low environmental impact” to contribute to company-wide CO₂ reduction activities. We also conducted educational activities aimed at fostering environmental awareness among employees.

To achieve the company’s environmental goals, our IT departments are focusing on reducing the CO₂ emissions from IT itself. We continue to promote CO₂ reduction through the Review of IT Equipment Usage and Operation, which targets servers, data centers, and user devices (PCs, monitors, and smartphones).

As part of our efforts to reduce the environmental impact of servers and data centers, we are promoting cloud lift & shift in collaboration with public cloud vendors, as well as energy conservation and the use of renewable energy in data centers. By the end of FY 2024, the Corporate IT department completed the cloud consolidation of servers owned in the in-house data centers and achieved a 100% carbon neutrality (CN) rate. Going forward, with the goal of achieving a 100% carbon neutrality rate for servers and data centers owned by IT departments of Hitachi Group companies by the end of FY 2030, we will promote the lift & shift of servers to environmentally-friendly cloud services and accelerate carbon neutrality across the entire company.

As part of our efforts to reduce the environmental impact of user devices (PCs, monitors, and smartphones), we are encouraging users to switch to newer, more environmentally-friendly device models. To facilitate the switch, newer models of PCs and monitors that come with the right to offset^#1 CO₂ emissions over the entire product lifecycle will be provided as an IT service within Hitachi. As for smartphones, encouraging the switch from older models to newer 5G-compatible models will lead to the use of carriers’ 5G equipment and base stations, which run on renewable energy, thereby contributing to a reduction in CO₂ emissions. The carbon neutrality rate for user devices provided through the Corporate IT department services achieved 100% by the end of FY 2024.

We will investigate the IT devices used by BUs^#2 and Group companies and provide solutions that support the switch to environmentally-friendly IT services. This will accelerate efforts to reduce the environmental impact of the Hitachi Group as a whole.

The Corporate IT department is implementing initiatives where employees vote to select actions that everyone can engage in, chosen from ideas proposed by various workplaces, to practice environmentally friendly behaviors and work styles in the office.

For example, we are also working on initiatives such as distributing reusable bottles, promoting eco-bags, and waste sorting campaigns. Through these events, we foster environmental awareness among our employees and motivate them to take environmental action.