SUSTAINABILITY Supply Chain

Environmental Preservation Activities throughout the Supply Chain
Reducing CO2 Emissions throughout the Supply Chain

Our environmental impact is due not only to our own, direct operations, but to all stages in the supply chain, from raw material procurement to product manufacturing, logistics, sales, disposal, and recycling. We strive to understand our environmental impact at each stage, review steps needed for reduction, and take action to reduce energy consumption, resource use, and waste.

We are particularly focused on understanding the CO2 emissions of our supply chain, and every year we ask our business partners, including factories that manufacture rice products and distribution centers, to cooperate in a questionnaire to understand their CO2 emissions. Going forward, we will examine items that need to be addressed and promote the reduction of CO2 emissions by verifying changes over time and the effects of our reduction measures.

Material Flow in Our Supply Chain

Scope1
Direct CO2 emissions from sources such as fuels used by the company.
(For Lawson, this applies to the gasoline usage of company vehicles.)
Scope2
CO2 emissions from the use of purchased electricity (CO2 emissions from electricity used by offices and stores)
Scope3
CO2 emissions arising from company operations other than scopes 1 and 2.
Material Flow in Our Supply Chain

CO2 emissions from our supply chain in fiscal 2022

Categories Details CO2 emissions
(Thousand tons CO2)
Scope1 (Direct emissions) Gasoline consumption of company vehicles 4.3
Scope2 (Indirect emissions) Electricity consumption of the Headquarters, regional offices, branches, and stores 896.8
Scope3 (Other indirect emissions) Categories 1 Raw materials purchased (Private and national brand products,
plastic shopping bags, etc.)
4193.6
Categories 2 Buildings, furniture and fixtures etc., and information
system hardware
70.3
Categories 3 Electricity consumption associated with procurement of electric power 145.0
Categories 4 Energy consumption of the distribution centers 136.0
Categories 5 In-store waste, and industrial waste due to store closures and
remodeling
21.9
Categories 6 Business trips by Lawson Headquarters employees 0.8
Categories 7 Commutes by Lawson Headquarters employees 1.4
Categories 11 Use of products sold 56.5
Categories 12 Disposal of containers, chopsticks, and plastic shopping bags 40.6
Total 5567.1

* Calculations are based on the Basic Guidelines for Calculating Greenhouse Gas Emissions Throughout the Supply Chain Ver. 2.5 and the emissions intensity database Ver. 3.3 for calculating greenhouse gas emissions of organizations throughout the supply chain. It does not cover Lawson’s entire supply chain. Each value is rounded so the total value does not match the values’ actual total. Scope 2 includes electricity consumption by franchise stores that belong to Category 14 of Scope 3.
Third-party validation has been performed on the record for fiscal 2022 by the Japan Management Association (except for electricity consumption by LAWSON STORE 100 stores in Scope 2).



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