The Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Group recognizes that the sound maintenance and preservation of biodiversity is essential to the pursuit of sustainable business, and the Mitsubishi Chemical Group (the MCG Group) is engaged in the maintenance and preservation of biodiversity through a wide range of activities such as reducing its environmental impact, promoting appropriate usage of inherited resources, fostering harmonious coexistence with nature and society, and raising awareness within the Group. Furthermore, we have set targets for biodiversity preservation in the Medium-Term Environmental Action 21-25, and are working to achieve them.

It is important to understand the relationship between business activities and biodiversity and work to preserve it. To that end, the Group strives to understand its environmental impact in the value chain in terms of both its use of resources (IN) and its discharge of waste and by-products (OUT). We are deepening our understanding of our impact and dependence on the biodiversity of business. In addition, we monitor waste and by-product emissions, evaluating these in conjunction with the MOS index*.

Map of relationship between our business and biodiversity

• *Created by referencing the Business & Biodiversity Interrelationship Map of the Japan Business Initiative for Biodiversity (JBIB)

To understand the importance of biodiversity and the natural environment and preserve them, the Group has participated in Tokyo Greenship Action*¹ and the Ikoma Mountain Range “Folding Screen of Flowers” Project*² and has continued its involvement in these activities.
Although the spread of COVID-19 prompted us to suspend its participation in these activities, it resumed participating again after a three-year hiatus as the MCG Group. In Tokyo Greenship Action, participants maintained bamboo groves and trimmed trees, While the Folder Screen of Flowers project saw participants involved in cleanup activities and tree planting.

Additionally, as part of activities to conserve tropical rainforests in Indonesia, Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Indonesia participated in the “Arkhim Reforestation 2023” project to plant trees and reforest a forest reserve in West Java Province. In addition to donating 500 Sumatran pine and other saplings, 10 employees engaged in tree planting and reforestation areas in the protected area.

*Although Indonesia is home to vast areas of forest, they are in ongoing decline. As trees are cut down there is less forest available to absorb large amounts of carbon dioxide, resulting in climate change.

To further promote biodiversity conservation activities, we have conducted a campaign to promote environmental conservation activities since fiscal 2017. In this campaign, we distributed the Company’s original towel scarf on which "For the Environment" was printed to participants and all employees who worked together to promote environmental conservation activities. Through clean-up activities, we are working to beautify the town and prevent environmental pollution by removing plastics and other waste that had been swept out to the ocean.