Other Projects
MSIGH exhibits at 5th Eco-Products International Fair
MSIGH exhibited at a four-day "5th Eco-Products International Fair" held in the capital of the Philippines, Manila, which started on March 19, 2009. The fair aimed at providing opportunities for the government, companies and the public to exchange information on protecting the global environment, such as eco-friendly products and activities promoted by companies in Asia, including Japan.
We exhibited panels to present our effort in promoting "eco-safe driving", "solar loan" and various other activities. The event was a huge success, with thousands of visitors going around the booths, including Philippine President Arroyo.
MSIG holds an event honoring leaders working on environmental issues facing Asia (MSIG Holdings (Asia) Pte. Ltd.)
On December 8, 2008, MSIG held an event in Hong Kong, honoring leaders working on environmental issues facing Asia.
At the event, two companies, namely CLSA, a securities and banking company in Hong Kong, and John Hardy, a manufacturer and seller of jewelry in Indonesia, were awarded in attendance of 200 participants, including industry, government and academic leaders, and environmental opinion leaders in Hong Kong.
MSIG is making proactive effort to expand business in Asia. This event is an environmental enlightenment activity that supports companies and leaders in Asia working on environmental issues, with aim to further increase environmental awareness.
To coincide with this event, we published a "special issue featuring environment" in cooperation with the Financial Times for readers of the Asian edition of the Financial Times.
Exhibition at the Abu Dhabi Environment Expo
The World Future Energy Summit (Abu Dhabi Environment Expo) was held for 3 days during Jan.21 - 23, 2008 at the Abu Dhabi International Exhibition Center in Abu Dhabi UAE, with the aim of working towards sustained environmentally friendly development in the Middle East.
Numerous panels from Japan and Western companies introducing environmentally friendly products and activities to save the environment were exhibited. 17 Japanese companies participated, including Cosmo Oil, Matsushita Electric, Sharp, JGC, Daikin, and Nikken Sekkei.
We used part of the Mitsui Group's booth to exhibit panels showing our environment conscious activities over the years including the Surugadai Building and our Indonesia Reforestation Project, as well as the group's involvement in ISO14001.
On the day of the event, General Sheikh Mohammed of the Abu Dhabi gave an opening speech, after which he observed the booths at the venue. Many ministers from Abu Dhabi as well as the surrounding countries also attended the successful event.
Summer Holiday Family Environment Class
At Surugadai Building, we hold a summer-holiday family class with a theme: “let's take a look at the eco-friendly company my daddy and mommy work at!” Through experience-based learning with family, we not only create an opportunity to deepen family bonding experience, but also to foster environmental activities at home.
Class outline
Second in its series, this class compared the temperature difference between Surugadai Building rooftop and Rooftop Garden, picking edamame and flowers and sowing seeds at the Rooftop Garden, watching clips of world's precious wildlife and shared our findings together. “It's amazing vegetables can grow on rooftop,” “I now know more about global warming,” “I found the movie clips interesting” were some of the feedback given by the children.
Date |
12:00 - 15:30 Jul.21 (Sat) 2007 |
|---|---|
Place |
Meeting Rm, Roof Garden, Vegetable Garde - Surugadai Bldg. |
Participants |
MSIG Employees and their children (30 primary school students) |
Activities |
(1) [1] Concrete rooftop [2] Cool rooftop [3] Temperature forecast and actual temperature of Roof garden (2) Harvest and planting at rooftop vegetable garden (3) Watching videos of nature and wildlife (4) Reception Party |
Making envelopes ecological
We have made the issued insurance policy and the envelops we use to send information to our shareholders ecological. Even the transparent opening in the envelope is made by recyclable materials such as glassine paper or PHA natural plastics. For printing, soy ink was used reducing the ecological impact further.
ECO2 (Ecology & Economy) campaign
The ECO2 campaign earns its name from the policy of reducing waste by saving energy and resources (Economize) and therefore reducing the impact on the environment (Ecology). This campaign is now being implemented in all branches.
Since 2003, we have been operating the ECO2 Summer policy where employees are free to wear business casual wear that keeps them cooler therefore allowing for air-conditioning to be less intensively used. This policy was made an all year policy in 2005 allowing for heating in winter to be moderated.
Activities related to UNEP (United Nations Environment Program)
In November 1995, we have drafted and signed the “UNEP Statement by Financial Institutions” aiming at the international collaboration amongst financial institutions world wide in order to tackle environmental problems.
In September 2005, Japanese financial institutions that have signed the UNEP FI statement came together to form the “UNEP FI Asia/Pacific Task Force Japan Group” in order to strengthen communication amongst the institutions and to present information externally.
We will continue to strengthen our involvement in environmental issues in order to fulfill our social responsibility as a corporation.
* About UNEP: A core institution in the United Nations set up to implement the “Statement for Human Environmental Quality” and “The International Environmental Action Plan” adopted in 1972 at the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm.
Participation in the Carbon Disclosure Project
The Carbon Disclosure Project was started in 2002 by major corporate investors worldwide who sought information disclosure about environmental policies, state of implementation of these policies and amount of greenhouse gas emissions by major international corporations.
It aims to promote anti-global warming measures by asking corporations to disclose information.We have joined the project at the 3rd CDP meeting in 2005 and by the 4th CDP 225 corporate investors worldwide (operating assets 35 trillion dollars) were asking 1800 major corporations to disclose information.
Participation to “Team Minus 6%”
Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Co.,Ltd. and Mitsui Sumitomo Kirameki Life Insurance Co.,Ltd. have joined the national movement “Team Minus 6%” that aims to reduce greenhouse gases and to prevent global warming.
* About Team Minus 6%: National movement aiming to attain the target set by the Kyoto Protocol, namely to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases such as CO2 by 6%.
