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.
(In the case of Lawson, this applies to the use of gasoline in company cars and CFC leakage from refrigerating systems in stores.)
Since FY 2023, we have added the amount of CFC leakage from refrigerating systems at stores.
Scope2
CO2 emissions from the use of purchased electricity (CO2 emissions from electricity used by offices and stores)
Scope: franchise stores and directly managed stores of LAWSON, NATURAL LAWSON, and LAWSON STORE100
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 2023
(Target period: from April 2023 to March 2024)*

Categories Details CO2 emissions
(Thousand tons CO2)
Scope1 (Direct emissions) Gasoline consumption of company vehicles and CFC leakage from refrigerating systems 50.3
Scope2 (Indirect emissions) Electricity consumption of the Headquarters, regional offices, branches, and stores 988.8
Scope3 (Other indirect emissions) Categories 1 Raw materials purchased (Private and national brand products,
plastic shopping bags, etc.)		 4,405.8
Categories 2 Buildings, furniture and fixtures etc., and information
system hardware		 123.4
Categories 3 Electricity consumption associated with procurement of electric power 150.6
Categories 4 Energy consumption of the distribution centers 139.7
Categories 5 In-store waste, and industrial waste due to store closures and
remodeling		 23.7
Categories 6 Business trips by Lawson Headquarters employees 0.8
Categories 7 Commutes by Lawson Headquarters employees 2.0
Categories 11 Use of products sold 39.6
Categories 12 Disposal of containers, chopsticks, and plastic shopping bags 39.4
Total 5,964.1

* Calculations are based on the Basic Guidelines for Calculating Greenhouse Gas Emissions Throughout the Supply Chain Ver. 2.6 and the emissions intensity database Ver. 3.4 for calculating greenhouse gas emissions of organizations throughout the supply chain. It does not cover Lawson’s entire supply chain. 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 2023 by the Japan Management Association.

Greenhouse gas emissions Verification Statement


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