Natural symbiotic action

If each of DENSO’s nearly 170,000 employees around the world act with careful consideration for nature, we would be able to make a significant contribution toward the resolution of today’s environmental problems. We recommend eco-friendly manufacturing within our business activities and engage in environmental conservation activities in local communities as a corporate citizen.
Under the seventh phase of the Environmental Action Plan (2020–2025), we are reinforcing activities that contribute to biodiversity in order to deepen our understanding of the dangers facing biodiversity and promote conservation initiatives.

Each of our business sites around the world promote activities that contribute to the environment, such as tree planting and regional beautification activities, on a continuous basis.

As our way of living and DENSO’s business activities are supported by the blessings of nature created from biodiversity, we believe it is important to promote business activities in a manner that strikes a balance with the conservation of biodiversity.
To that end, we are promoting the conservation of the natural environment, which creates biodiversity, through our business activities from such efforts as responding to climate change, preventing environmental pollution, alleviating resource depletion, and promoting resource recycling. At the same time, by educating our employees on biodiversity and working together with local communities, we are engaged in the maintenance and preservation of ecosystems.
Under the seventh phase of the Environmental Action Plan, we are focusing our attention on activities such as water area conservation, forest and woodland conservation, and tree planting and tree cultivation.
In this section, we provide examples of activities we are pursuing in each country and region to resolve biodiversity-related issues.

1. Water Conservation Activities

With the participation of our employees and in collaboration with local communities, we are engaging in activities to preserve the biodiversity of water areas near company offices and of major water areas in each country and region of operation.

For example, at the Toyohashi Plant of DENSO CORPORATION, we have been partnering with the NPO Omotehama Network since 2007 to promote environmental conservation activities along the Omotehama coast, an egg-laying area for loggerhead turtles, which are an endangered species.

In addition, at our business sites across the globe, we are pursuing environmental conservation and beautification activities for water areas inhabited by wildlife.

The destruction of forests is a significant global issue, and we are therefore making worldwide efforts to restore forests in order to protect biodiversity.

We have been participating in tree-planting activities in numerous countries around the world, including Germany, the United Kingdom, and Italy in Europe; Brazil in South America; and Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, the Philippines, India, and South Korea in Asia. For example, at DNPH in the Philippines, we took part in the “Mount Making Tree Planting” project, in which we conducted tree-planting activities while reviewing documents to confirm the progress of tree growth and recording important growth milestones. In Thailand and Malaysia, a large number of DENSO employees have participated in tree-planting activities to protect mangrove forests along coastlines.

In cooperation with Toyota Group companies, DENSO is participating in the Green Wave Project, an activity for preserving biodiversity. We are working to expand a circle of activities that currently include cultivating forests and preserving wildlife within factory areas to involve the local community and administrative bodies.

DENSO endorses the “30 by 30” initiative and has joined the 30 by 30 Alliance for Biodiversity.
30 by 30 is a target to effectively conserve at least 30 percent of the planet’s land and ocean to curb biodiversity loss and restore healthy ecosystems by 2030. Since 2006, DENSO has been actively carrying out greening activities not only on the premises of the Company’s business sites but also in the surrounding areas and in fields around expressways where automobiles are used, as well as conducting training to improve employees’ environmental awareness centered on the theme of conserving biodiversity.
We will continue to contribute to the development of a sustainable society through our participation in the 30 by 30 Alliance for Biodiversity and by leveraging the years of experience and knowledge we have cultivated in promoting biodiversity conservation.