Promotion of Environment Conserving Businesses

ITOCHU Corporation is committed to solving environmental issues through its businesses. As a framework for promoting these businesses, each division formulates a Sustainability Action Plan and promotes initiatives according to the PDCA cycle. ITOCHU also recognizes consideration for the environment (climate change, preserving biodiversity, etc.) and sustainable resource utilization as materiality and focuses on finding solutions to these challenges.

Renewable Energy

ITOCHU Corporation is addressing social issues through investment in power generation assets that are expected to grow as a necessary means of energy supply and that make effective use of renewable energy such as geothermal and wind power.

Details of Initiative	Name of Business Operator / Investment Project	Country	Generating Capacity / Size	Greenhouse Gas Reduction Figures
Wind Power Generation Business	CPV Keenan Ⅱ Wind Power Generation Project	USA	152MW	Approx. 410,000 tons / year
	Shepherds Flat Wind Power Generation Business	USA	845MW	Approx. 1,480,000tons / year
	Cotton Plains Wind and Solar Pear Generation Business	USA	217MW	Approx. 580,000 tons / year
Offshore Wind Power Generation Business	Butendiek Offshore Wind Power Generation Project	Germany	288MW	Approx. 750,000 tons / year
Biodiesel Manufacturing Business	Biodiesel manufacturing project in Nebraska, USA run by Flint Hills Resources, Benefuel and others	USA	About 50 million gallon/year	Approx. 520,000 tons / year
Waste Management Projects	ST&W Waste Management Project / South Tyne & Wear Energy Recovery Holdings Limited	England	Incineration treatment of 260,000 tons / year of general waste Scale of power generation: Equivalent power consumption of 31,000 homes	Estimated 62,000 tons / year
	Cornwall Waste Management Project / Cornwall Energy Recovery Holdings Limited	England	Incineration treatment of 240,000 tons / year of general waste Scale of power generation: Equivalent power consumption of 21,000 homes	Estimated 60,000 tons / year
	Merseyside Waste Management Project / Merseyside Energy Recovery Holdings Limited	England	Incineration treatment of 460,000 tons / year of general waste Scale of power generation: Equivalent power consumption of 63,000 homes	Estimated 130,000 tons / year
	West London Waste Management Project / West London Energy Recovery Holdings Limited	England	Incineration treatment of 350,000 tons / year of general waste Scale of power generation: Equivalent power consumption of 50,000 homes	Estimated 83,000 tons / year
	Serbia Waste Management Project / Beo Cista Energija (Construction will begin in 2019)	Serbia	Incineration treatment of 340,000 tons / year of general waste Scale of power generation: Equivalent power consumption of 30,000 homes (planned)	Estimated 120,000 tons / year
Geothermal Power Generation	Sarulla Operations Ltd	Indonesia	320MW	About 1,000,000 tons/year
Photovoltaic Power Generation	Oita Hiyoshibaru photovoltaic power plant large-scale solar power plant	Japan	44.8MW	32,000 tons/year
	Shin-Okayama photovoltaic power plant large-scale solar power plant	Japan	37MW	26,000 tons/year
	Saijo Komatsu photovoltaic power plant large-scale solar power plant	Japan	26.2MW	18,000 tons/year
	Saga-Ouchi photovoltaic power plant large-scale solar power plant	Japan	21MW	15,000 tons/year

[Photo] — Shepherds Flat wind power plant

Water-Related Businesses

About 97.5% of the earth's water consists of sea water. Water available for use by human beings accounts for only 0.01% of the total. Meanwhile, the demand for water worldwide is steadily increasing due to economic development driven by the newly emerging countries, population growth, and changes in precipitation patterns caused by climate change. ITOCHU Corporation has positioned the water-related business as a priority field, and is developing business globally in areas such as sea water desalination, water treatment, and concession projects which started in 2014, with a view to helping solve water problems around the world.

Country	Details of Initiative
Concession project on water supply and sewerage systems	In 2012, ITOCHU invested in the UK-based Bristol Water Group. This made us the first Japanese company to participate in the UK water sector. Bristol Water Group is providing full drinking water services from water resource management to water treatment, water supply and distribution, billing service, and customer service to 1.2 million customers in UK. In 2014, ITOCHU invested in CANARAGUA CONCESIONES S.A., which manages concessions of upstream and downstream water, sewerage network and the integral water cycle in the autonomous of the Canary Islands. This made us the first Japanese company to participate in the Spanish water sector. CANARAGUA CONCESIONES S.A. is currently providing services to an extended total of approximately 1.3 million inhabitants in the Islands.
Seawater Desalination	ITOCHU invested and participated in a seawater desalination project in Victoria, Australia. With the ability to meet around 30% of the water demand in Melbourne, this project supports the stable supply of water to the city from 2012.
Seawater Desalination	ITOCHU has become the largest shareholder in a seawater desalination project with a capacity of 281,000 m³ per day that is being undertaken by Oman Power and Water Procurement Company (OPWP), a government entity of the Sultanate of Oman, at Barka, located in the northern area of the country. This is the largest seawater desalination project in the Sultanate of Oman, and involves the construction of a reverse osmosis desalination plant and surrounding facilities that will operate for 20 years. The seawater desalination plant will start supplying drinking water in June 2018.
Supply of seawater desalination plants and manufacture & sales osmosis membranes	ITOCHU began delivering large numbers of seawater desalination plants in Saudi Arabia from the 1970s. In the 2000s, ITOCHU and Sasakura established the joint venture company ACWA Power Sasakura (Sasakura Middle East Company, present) with local capital in the country. We also expanded into rehabilitation projects for seawater desalination plants with APS. In August 2010, the joint venture company Arabian Japanese Membrane Company, LLC, which manufactures and sells reverse osmosis membrane elements for seawater desalination, was established with Toyobo and local capital.

2015 CSR Highlight: Water and Environmental Public Infrastructure Projects

Tree Plantation

The earth is rapidly losing its forest coverage. ITOCHU Corporation is attempting to expand its businesses in the field of paper and pulp by developing renewable forest resources on its own. It also promotes tree plantation with a focus on businesses that will contribute to preventing global warming. ITOCHU was the first Japanese sogo shosha to obtain CoC certification^*1 from the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC)^*2 and begin importing certified wood chips.

:FSC is an international organization that certifies forests where logs and lumber are produced, as well as the distribution and processing of logs and lumber from the forests.
:CoC certification is a certification from FSC regarding the management of processing and distribution process. CoC stands for Chain of Custody.

Name of Business Operator/Tree Plantation	Country	Project Size
CENIBRA (Celulose Nipo-Brasileira S.A.)	Brazil	131,310ha
ANCHILE	Chile	26,562ha
Southland Plantation Forest Co.	New Zealand	8,777ha
Acacia Afforestation Asia	Vietnam	1,520ha
South Wood Export Ltd.	New Zealand	1,422ha

Other Environmental Businesses

Project Name	Details of Initiative
Reducing the environmental footprint with the introduction of side shrink packaging	As an initiative to reduce its environmental footprint, ITOCHU PLASTICS INC. ("CIPS" hereafter) has supported the introduction of "side shrink film" at all stores operated by FamilyMart Co., Ltd., its domestic area franchise company locations, and Circle K Sunkus stores (collectively, "FamilyMart"). Side shrink film is a style of packaging in which the plastic film around a package for a boxed lunch, sushi or noodle product only covers the area where the container and lid meet. FamilyMart has introduced" side shrink packaging" to nationwide stores in February 2015. The switch to side shrink packaging from full shrink packaging, where an entire container is covered with cling film, has made packages easier to open, improved the visibility of contents and offered advanced blocking properties. The new packaging also plays a major role in reducing the burden on the environment by decreasing waste, cutting the amount of plastic materials used in packaging and lowering CO₂ emissions. The results in FY 2017 (Comparison with previous full shrink packaging) Cutting the amount of plastic materials: Approx. 430 tons Lowering CO₂ emissions: Approx. 1,540 tons

Project Name

Details of Initiative

Reducing the environmental footprint with the introduction of side shrink packaging

As an initiative to reduce its environmental footprint, ITOCHU PLASTICS INC. ("CIPS" hereafter) has supported the introduction of "side shrink film" at all stores operated by FamilyMart Co., Ltd., its domestic area franchise company locations, and Circle K Sunkus stores (collectively, "FamilyMart"). Side shrink film is a style of packaging in which the plastic film around a package for a boxed lunch, sushi or noodle product only covers the area where the container and lid meet.
FamilyMart has introduced" side shrink packaging" to nationwide stores in February 2015. The switch to side shrink packaging from full shrink packaging, where an entire container is covered with cling film, has made packages easier to open, improved the visibility of contents and offered advanced blocking properties. The new packaging also plays a major role in reducing the burden on the environment by decreasing waste, cutting the amount of plastic materials used in packaging and lowering CO₂ emissions.

The results in FY 2017 (Comparison with previous full shrink packaging)
Cutting the amount of plastic materials: Approx. 430 tons
Lowering CO₂ emissions: Approx. 1,540 tons

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