Living in Harmony with Nature
Approach and Policy
Social Issues
Under the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF), a set of international targets on biodiversity adopted in December 2022, the aim is to halt and reverse biodiversity loss by 2030. The achievement of a nature-positive world has been widely established as a policy goal in various countries including Japan. In this environment, investors are calling for companies to identify the dependencies and impacts of their corporate activities on natural capital and to evaluate and disclose business risks and opportunities. The electronics industry involves procurement of diverse components and raw materials and has complex supply chains. Therefore, it is essential to determine the appropriate initiatives based on the dependencies and impacts that are specific to a company’s own business characteristics.
Importance for the Casio Group
Casio’s business is focused on small consumer electronics, such as electronic calculators and watches, and its manufacturing processes also mainly consist of assembly. Therefore, there are limited direct dependencies and impacts on biodiversity within the Group. However, as there could be indirect impacts from the perspective of the value chain as a whole, Casio considers initiatives with an eye on collaborating with the entire industry. In parallel with such initiatives, Casio leverages its own organizational culture and areas of expertise to take measures inside and outside of the company with an awareness of expanding positive impacts on biodiversity through its business activities.
Casio Group Biodiversity Guidelines / Paper Procurement Policy
The Casio Group has identified “strengthening environmental management” as a material issue, with “living in harmony with nature” as one of the themes. As part of its initiatives so far, Casio formulated the Biodiversity Guidelines in 2011 to clearly articulate its policy on implementing business activities with due consideration for preserving ecosystems. Casio also established the Paper Procurement Policy in 2015 and has promoted the sustainable use of forestry resources. Under these policies, Casio aims for activities with full employee participation and emphasizes due consideration for the environment throughout the supply chain. Going forward, Casio will continue to practice and review these guidelines based on international trends and the demands of society.
Casio Group Biodiversity Guidelines
Basic Policy
The Casio Group recognizes that its existence and business activities depend on the benefits afforded by biodiversity, and that these activities also have an impact on biodiversity. Casio emphasizes biodiversity preservation activities as well as efforts to fight climate change. By including biodiversity preservation in environmental management and creating a system for implementation, the Casio Group is working to build a more sustainable world.
Specific Initiatives
1. Business Activities:
Casio will help to build a more sustainable world by creating and providing products and services that encourage consumers to care more about the environment. This will be done by learning from nature and developing technologies that utilize this wisdom.
- Facilitating a paperless society
- Contributing to resource saving by developing original technology
- Developing products with care for nature
2.Impact Assessment:
Casio will survey and analyze its impact on biodiversity through activities including R&D, design, procurement, manufacturing, logistics, sales, product use, disposal, and recycling, and at its office and plant locations. It will establish improvement measures and implement them starting with areas of highest environmental impact and benefit.
- Actively taking initiatives for proper procurement of parts (leather, wood, paper, etc.) and materials (mineral resources, etc.) that depend on ecosystem services.
- Conducting questionnaire surveys across the supply chain in order to check ecosystem protection efforts for parts and materials that make up products.
- Establishing impact assessment methods (checklists and indices) for the Casio Group
3. Information Disclosure:
Casio will strive to improve social awareness of biodiversity, by actively disclosing the results of its environmental activities.
4. Community Involvement:
Casio will actively support activities that contribute to biodiversity preservation by NPOs and NGOs, government agencies, and local citizens.
5. Full Employee Participation:
Casio is aiming for activities that involve the participation of all employees, by increasing understanding of biodiversity preservation, and training employees to act on their own initiative.
Casio Group Paper Procurement Policy
Purpose: To preserve biodiversity by protecting and sustainably using the forest resources which provide the raw material for paper.
Scope: All paper products procured by the Casio Group worldwide
Policy: Casio will procure paper for use in its business activities according to the following standards:
- Paper must be made from trees harvested in accordance with the laws and regulations governing the logging area concerned.
- Products must not come from companies that are destroying any forest with high conservation value or that are a source of serious environmental or social issues.
- Priority must be given to reliable certified paper or recycled paper.
Target and Performance
Evaluation ◎: All targets met ○ : Most targets met △ : Remaining issues outweigh results × : No progress made
| Theme | Medium and long-term targets | FY2025 Targets | FY2025 Performance | Evaluation | FY2026 Targets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Living in harmony with nature | Deepen understanding and awareness of biodiversity among many people, including employees and their families | Ensure the equivalent of 250 people in Japan a year experience outdoor activities | 289 | △ | Ensure the equivalent of 250 people in Japan a year experience outdoor activities |
Structure and Main Measures
In 2017, as part of its ISO 14001 environmental management system, Casio established the M3 Committee, which promotes measures related to biodiversity. The M3 Committee conducted a biodiversity survey of Casio’s main business sites in Japan in 2017, leading to the discovery of rare plants found on the Red Lists published by Japan’s Ministry of the Environment growing naturally on the company’s property. Since then, “protection teams” formed of employee volunteers have continued to implement conservation activities. In 2018, Casio began Casio Forest activities based on an agreement with Tokyo Metropolitan Bureau of Waterworks as an opportunity to take ownership of social issues related to the conservation of forests which are the foundation of the global environment.
These measures aim to contribute to mainstreaming the nature-positive concept both inside and outside the company. To this end, in 2024, Casio established a target vision for 2030 to “deepen understanding and awareness of biodiversity among many people, including employees and their families” as a medium and long-term target. Casio has also set targets for fiscal 2025 and fiscal 2026 to “produce the equivalent of 250 people in Japan a year who experience outdoor activities.”
These targets embody “5. Full Employee Participation” as set out in the Biodiversity Guidelines. “Experience outdoor activities” is treated as having essentially the same intent as “experience of nature” mentioned in the National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan (NBSAP) of Japan 2023-2030 and covers participation in Casio Forest, “protection teams,” and as staff for events such as WILD MIND GO!GO! as consisting of frontline experience that is key to mainstreaming biodiversity. Casio particularly emphasizes employee volunteerism and mainly holds activities on holidays to allow employees to decide for themselves whether to participate regardless of whether the activity is related to their usual work. The aim is to have employees who are highly sensitive to social issues participate in these activities, inspire each other, learn through hands-on experience, and take ownership of biodiversity issues.
In light of the results of these activities, in 2024, Casio was registered as a collaboration partner for the Tokyo Green Biz project run by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government.
*Updated on January 7, 2026