Opinions from outside experts

Here are the opinion of the expert who provided input after the Sustainable Vision and Pillars of Success were established.

The Sustainability Collaborative
Senior Advisor Ms. Sachiko Takami

[Process evaluation]

The process of setting the Sustainable Vision and developing a roadmap is rated excellent in the following aspects.

  1. 1There is strategic thinking and top commitment.
  2. 2Sustainable Vision, backcasting and creating a roadmap.

[Suggestions for future processes]

  1. 1Follow-up and review required
  2. 2Proposed carbon neutrality strategy for Kanadevia
  3. 3No product or service is sustainable from the start
  4. 4Communicate to raise social and consumer awareness

[Conclusion]

The Kanadevia Group can make a significant contribution to eliminating Japan's dependence on LNG and coal imports by providing technologies that use wind and solar power, garbage, food waste, raw sewage sludge, and woody biomass as energy sources that can be procured in Japan. In particular the field of Waste to Energy, we propose that efficiency improvements be included in the measures, since energy can be used even more efficiently if a system can be developed to use unused heat as well as district heat, the Waste to Energy concept will create domestic employment and make a significant contribution to Japan's economy as well as to its security. However, the path to carbon neutrality is not an easy one. What we expect here is that the Kanadevia Group is companies whose spirit of challenge has been passed down in its DNA over its 140-year history. And that the Kanadevia Group has great potential in the social transformation of the world to become carbon neutrality. Here, I hope that you will use the four principles of sustainability as a compass to provide leadership in this greatest challenge of humanity.