FY2022 1st Stakeholder Dialogue (Environment)

Recent Activities

Dialogue on the Environment [1]

In December 2022, we invited Mr. Shogoro Fujiki, CEO of Biome Inc., to KDDI's head office and held a stakeholder dialogue on the evaluation and expectations for our overall efforts toward the environment, mainly on biodiversity conservation.

Participants

Mr.Shogoro Fujiki
CEO
Biome Inc.

<Participating expert>
Mr.Shogoro Fujiki
CEO
Biome Inc.

<KDDI participants>
Sustainability Management Division
Takamochi Yasumoto, Group Leader, Sustainability Planning Section, Sustainability Planning Department
Momoko Ootou, Sustainability Planning Section, Sustainability Planning Department
Mayuko Kashiwagi, Carbon Neutral Strategy Section, Sustainability Planning Department
Kentaro Torimitsu, Group Leader, ESG Development Section, Sustainability Development Department
Kazuhiro Matsumoto, ESG Development Section, Sustainability Development Department

  • The titles/positions of participants are as of end of December 2022.

The opinions we received are as follows.

  • The market for biodiversity conservation is expected to be worth about $10 trillion per year in the future, but it is still in its infancy. Also, unlike climate change, it is important and challenging to link it to countries and regions for quantification and analysis.
  • The power of smartphones is needed to quantify biodiversity: more than 4 billion are in use worldwide and can record location data. If the telecommunications industry recognizes this as a business opportunity and takes action, the scope of solutions to social problems will expand.
  • I expect KDDI to create a platform for data collected from camera traps, IoT, smartphones, sensors, etc.

We recognized the importance of understanding and analyzing risks, including those in the supply chain, for each location, and reaffirmed the importance of viewing these as business opportunities and taking various environmental measures.