About Us

CSR

Basic Approach

The JR-West Group has established the direction described below regarding protection of the global environment.

Basic Concept

JR-West, working in unison with its Group companies, will endeavor to protect the global environment and contribute to the realization of a society in which sustainable development is possible.

Code of Conduct

1Aiming to be a corporate group that is friendly to the global environment, we will engage in appropriate and effective resource usage.
2We will develop technologies and engage in creative innovation to protect the global environment.
3We will act with a constant awareness of the need to protect the global environment.

Initiatives to protect the global environment are important corporate social responsibilities. JR-West believes it is important to helping build a sustainable society by redoubling its efforts to lower its impact on the environment through the efficient and effective use of energy and other resources, and by avoiding environmental risk in a manner based on legal compliance.
At the same time, we aim to contribute to the realization of an energy-efficient society by collaborating with other public transportation operators and local communities to increase the convenience and attractiveness of railways and create a railway that increasing numbers of customers will choose to use.

The Global Environment Overall Perspective

Environment Targets

Item		Previous Targets: JR-West Group Medium-Term Management Plan 2008-2012		New Targets: JR-West Group Medium-Term Management Plan 2017
Item		Fiscal 2013 Target	Fiscal 2013 Actual	Fiscal 2014 Target	Fiscal 2018 Target
Energy-saving railcars as a percentage of total railcars		75％	76.8％	77％	83％
Energy consumption rate^*1 (vs. fiscal 1996)		(12％)	(16.0％)	-	-
Same as above (vs. fiscal 2011)		-	-	(3％)	(3％)^※2,3
Energy consumption volume (entire company) (vs. fiscal 2011)		-	-	(2％)	(2％)^※2,3
Same as above (for conventional line operation, station offices, etc.) (vs. fiscal 2011)		-	-	(4％)	(9％)^※2
Station and train garbage (recyclable) recycling rate		85% or greater	97.8％	96% or greater^※2
Railway material recycling rate	Facility construction	90% or greater	92.2％	96% or greater
Railway material recycling rate	Rolling stock	90% or greater	92.2％	91% or greater

*1 The energy consumption rate is the amount of energy consumed per rolling-stock kilometer
(MJ / Rolling-stock km).
*2 Included in the JR-West Group Medium-Term Management Plan 2017
*3 The fiscal 2018 target considers the estimated increase in energy consumption related to the start of Hokuriku Shinkansen operations. Note : figures in bracket ( ) are negative values.