Enhanced Response
to Climate Change
The frequent occurrence of extreme weather and damages and impacts on the natural environment caused by climate change poses a major risk to not only businesses but also the activities of communities around the world. Companies have a responsibility to lower CO2 emissions from their business activities and respond to climate change.
Initiatives for Decarbonization
Actively introduce renewable energy at our business locations
We are advancing a switch to electricity derived from renewable energy at the principal business locations of Group companies aimed at decarbonization.
Bandai Namco Miraikenkyusho, the Bandai headquarters, the Bandai Namco Amusement headquarters (Sumitomo Fudosan Tamachi Ekimae Building), the Bandai Namco Studios headquarters (Shibusawa Eitai Building), and Bandai Hobby Center, a production plant for Bandai Spirits plastic models, among other Group business locations, have switched all of the electricity they use to renewable energy, achieving net-zero emissions of CO2 from their office operations. The amount of CO2 emissions reduced through this initiative totals more than 4,000 t-CO2 per year.
Introduction of solar power generation systems
Bandai Hobby Center, which produces plastic models for Bandai Spirits, installed a rooftop solar power generation system with 400 solar panels covering an area of approximately 1,202 m2. Annually, this system has the capacity to generate approximately 260,000 kWh* on its own, which is expected to lower CO2 emissions by approximately 130 t-CO2 per year.
In addition, we installed a solar power generation system at Bandai Namco Craft's Kanto-Base and Heart's headquarters factory. In this manner, we are moving toward electricity self-sufficiency through solar power generation.
Calculated using the power generation calculation method for solar batteries in accordance with JIS 8907.
Reducing CO2 emissions by migrating all on-premise servers to the cloud
Bandai Namco Entertainment has migrated all of its computing services*1 using its on-premise data center to the cloud with the objective of reducing power consumption and waste. This has increased computing efficiency in operations at scale. The amount of CO2 emissions reduced through this change totals more than approximately 2,400 t-CO2 per year*2.
Services such as storage, network, database, and software.
Assumes an average usage rate of 30%.
Ensure live events are environmentally considerate
Bandai Namco Music Live actively utilizes LEDs for lighting at its live events. We make an effort to sell reusable goods at live events. In addition to selling original eco bags at the event site, we have switched to battery-powered pen lights that can be used repeatedly instead of disposable ones, which are used during live events.
Re:vale LIVE GATE “Re:flect U”
Main Arena of Musashino Forest Sport Plaza
Acquisition of BREEAM certification
At the Bandai Namco Europe headquarters building, which was completed in July 2021, we are working on various measures such as reducing the environmental impact during architectural design and providing work spaces that take into account the health of employees. In recognition of these efforts, in March 2023, the building received the "Excellent" rank of BREEAM certification*, which is an environmental performance certification system for buildings administered in the United Kingdom.
BREEAM certification: The environmental assessment method (EAM) for evaluating the environmental performance of buildings formulated and administered by the Building Research Establishment (BRE) in the United Kingdom. It was developed in 1990 to evaluate the sustainability of buildings, making it the world's longest-running building environmental certification system.
Tree planting in Shenzhen, China
Bandai (Shenzhen) planted trees in Shenzhen, China in April 2023 to protect the environment and lower CO2. More than 130 employees and 60 families participated in this activity, planting more than 60 seedlings.
