Biodiversity Initiatives at Nippon Paper Group

Abstract

Nippon Paper Group is a corporation closely connected with biodiversity. We utilizes trees, a renewable resource provided from ecosystem services, to provide society with products such as building materials, paper and chemical products and support people’s lives and contribute to cultural development. The loss of forests would lead to a loss of our operating base. Continuing the stable supply of products that utilize forest resources by taking into account biodiversity and pursuing sustainable forest management is one of the Group’s social responsibilities. For this reason, we have established “helping preserve the global environment over the long term and contributing to the development of a recycling-based society by carrying out corporate activities in recognition of the importance of biodiversity” as the philosophy of our Charter on the Environment and undertaken a variety of initiatives in this area.
This report focuses on the activities undertaken by Nippon Paper Group, whose operating base is forest resources, to ensure the continuity of its business. The report will introduce activities the Group has undertaken to preserve biodiversity from the dual perspectives of “initiatives through core business activities” and “initiatives utilizing in-house resources and technologies.”