The Biodiversity Working Group, The 4 Electrical and Electronic Industry Associations

In fiscal 2017,  Casio started taking part in The Biodiversity Working Group of the 4 electrical and electronic industry associations (JEMA: The Japan Electrical Manufacturers’ Association, JEITA: Japan Electronics and Information Technology Industries Association, CIAJ: Communications and Information Network Association of Japan, JBMIA: Japan Business Machine and Information System Industries Association). 

One of the recent activities of the working group was related to the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF), a new global framework with a target year of 2030 that was adopted at the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD/COP15) held in Montreal, Canada in December 2022. The working group analyzed the impact of the GBF on the electrical and electronics industry from the draft stage, and in April 2023, held an online seminar for member companies to cover GBF23 Target Guidance. As a member of the working group, Casio also participated in the process. 

Also in the same year, Casio participated in the editing of the educational and awareness-raising tool “Let's Study Biodiversity (LSB) Ver. 2 – Basic Knowledge for Implementing Nature Positivity” (to be released in April 2024), which is designed to help promote business activities that take biodiversity into account.