Environmental Compliance

Here is an overview of Casio’s environmental compliance initiatives.

Standards Management and Audits: Regular Internal Audits and Third-party Audits

Casio works to appropriately manage environmental impact and reduce environmental risks at each business site, following environment-related laws and regulations established by national and local governments as well as voluntary standards. At the 10 sites which have obtained ISO 14001 certification and certain other sites, the company continuously measures concentrations of dust, SOx, and NOx in exhaust emissions and wastewater quality (water containing harmful substances), manages the usage conditions for harmful chemical substances, and measures and reports handling quantities and atmospheric emissions of volatile organic compounds (VOCs).

In addition, to address fluorocarbon gas, which is used in air conditioning and refrigeration equipment and has a global warming potential several thousand times that of CO2, Casio conducts simple inspections and periodic inspections based on Japan’s Act on Rational Use and Appropriate Management of Fluorocarbons. Moreover, Casio works to ensure the appropriate management of fluorocarbon gas by ascertaining filling and recovery volume at all sites using RaMS, the Refrigerant Management System operated by the Japan Refrigerants and Environment Conservation Organization.

Further, each site trains internal environmental auditors and conducts regular internal audits. Sites also undergo regular inspections by certification organizations. If any standards are not met, corrective measures are taken in accordance with internally specified procedures and connected to continuous improvement activities.

With a view to strengthening Casio’s environmental risk management and improving its environmental performance in the future, internal environmental auditors are enhancing their ability to accurately identify environmental risks and increasing their specialized knowledge of environmental laws and regulations, and also of chemicals management. They are also expected to play a role as front-line leaders of environmental compliance through detection of issues and proposals for improvements.

Compliance with Environmental Laws and Regulations Related to Casio Products

1. Regulations on the concentration of specified chemical substances

Casio has established the Environmental Law Working Group under the Promotion Committee for Group-wide Quality Enhancement and all related divisions involved in development, design, quality assurance, procurement, production, sales and services work together in this working group. The working group strives to strengthen compliance with environmental regulations by formulating action policies and operating ongoing PDCA cycles in addition to sharing information on environmental regulations across divisions.

Over the past few years, the world has seen many new and revised environmental regulations. These include the EU Battery Regulation and the EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR) in Europe, the tightening of environmental regulations in North America, and the RoHS and GB standards in China. Casio continuously researches and analyzes these regulatory developments and ensures global compliance by accurately identifying changing international requirements.

The Casio Green Procurement Standard Manual has been issued to guide operations. It is regularly revised in accordance with changes in legal regulations and social demands. Based on this manual, Casio sets specific criteria for the use of parts and materials that give consideration to reducing environmental impact and promotes environmental compliance throughout the supply chain through commitments made by suppliers.

In the Casio Green Procurement Standard Manual, Casio completely eliminated six substances, including lead, by the end of 2005 and four specific phthalate esters, including DEHP, by the end of 2018 to comply with the EU RoHS Directive. We have continued to update our rules and have established 41 prohibited substances and 11 substances for reduction up to the present. We also completely eliminated medium-chain chlorinated paraffins (MCCPs) and long-chain perfluorocarboxylic acids, their salts, and related compounds by the end of June 2026.

Casio responds appropriately to increasingly stringent and diverse environmental regulations around the world and works to ensure legal compliance through proactive information gathering and an organized management structure.

Major environmental laws and regulations related to Casio products

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2. Regulations on energy efficiency for power consumption

Countries also have environmental laws and regulations on power source efficiency for products that connect to AC power. Starting in the development stage, Casio assesses whether a product subject to environmental laws and regulations meets requirements, and then submits requests for approval to the relevant authorities.

Compliance Relating to the Proper Collection, Recycling, and Disposal of Used Products

Casio complies with the laws and regulations in each country and region related to the collection, recycling, and appropriate disposal of used electrical and electronic products, packaging materials, and batteries and works to reduce environmental impact across the product lifecycle. In addition to product design to save resources and facilitate recycling, we check whether requirements in each region are met for labeling and information provision designed to promote user participation in the sorted collection of products for recycling, as well as for information provision required for proper disposal.

Casio conducts product environmental assessments at the product planning and design stages to evaluate products for resource savings, ease of dismantling, recycling potential, and recycled material content. In doing so, Casio is working to improve recyclability from the design stage and promoting the creation of products with consideration given to collection and recycling of resources after product use.

Furthermore, with the enactment of Japan’s Small Electronic Devices Recycling Act in April 2013, Casio launched a project involving the relevant departments in each product category. We conducted interviews with intermediate processors and metal smelters involved in the recycling of used small electronic devices to collect knowledge on dismantling methods and resource recovery. The lessons learned are being incorporated into product environmental assessments, helping Casio to develop products that are easy to recycle.

Compliance Relating to Energy Saving and Climate Change Measures

Casio complies with laws and regulations related to energy conservation and climate change countermeasures at its larger business sites in Japan.

1. Act on Rationalization of Energy Use and Shift to Non-fossil Energy

Pursuant to the requirements of the Energy Conservation Law, Casio is taking various steps such as addressing the rational use of energy at the business level. As of 2025, Casio Computer Co., Ltd. and Yamagata Casio Co., Ltd. are both designated as specified businesses. Since fiscal 2010, Casio has been regularly submitting reports and medium and long-term plans on this issue. In accordance with the determination standards relating to the rational use of energy at plants and facilities, Casio has created the new position of energy management supervisor and has been promoting the rational use of energy and other measures.

2. Act on the Promotion of Global Warming Countermeasures

Casio does not exceed the standards for emissions of greenhouse gases other than CO₂ arising from energy use set by Japan’s Act on the Promotion of Global Warming Countermeasures. It is complying with requirements for the reporting of greenhouse gas emissions, by regularly submitting reports under the Act on the Rational Use of Energy.

3. Environmental Regulations in Tokyo

Under the Tokyo Metropolitan Environmental Security Ordinance’s Carbon Reduction Reporting Program, if the total energy usage on a crude oil equivalent basis for a business’ several small and medium-sized facilities set up within the Tokyo Metropolitan Area reaches 3,000 kl/year or higher, the business must submit a report including the status of initiatives to save energy at each facility.
The requirement to submit a report has not applied to Casio since fiscal 2020, and the company has not made any voluntary submissions. The reports Casio submitted previously are below for reference.

> Tokyo Carbon Reduction Reporting Program on the Tokyo Metropolitan Government website (In Japanese)

Published Data of Casio Computer Co., Ltd. (In Japanese)
* Since fiscal 2020, Casio has confirmed that the total energy usage on a crude oil equivalent basis at all relevant business sites has not exceeded 3,000kL/year, staying under the level at which reports must be submitted under this program.

> Fiscal 2018
> Fiscal 2017
> Fiscal 2015
> Fiscal 2014

Compliance Relating to Environmental Information Disclosure

With growing demand for companies to disclose non-financial information, Casio is working to disclose environmental information and has set the following goals for its effort to provide all stakeholders with information that is accurate and easy to understand.

To adopt more accurate indices relating to environmental impact, and to provide comparable information
To provide non-financial information including environmental information that indicates the connections with corporate strategy
To explain the capability of environmental information to improve corporate performance

Going forward, based on international disclosure standards for non-financial information and developments in the area of standardization, Casio will continue disclosing environmental information in a way that helps stakeholders to understand and trust the company.

Compliance with Environmental Laws

Casio was not subject to any legal violations, penalties, fines, or lawsuits relating to the environment in fiscal 2026.