The TOPPAN Group positions the conservation of biodiversity as a critical challenge for management. As a guide to drive conservation initiatives, a Basic Policy on Biodiversity was established in April 2010. A year later, in September 2011, a set of Paper Procurement Guidelines for the Sustainable Use of Forest Resources was formulated to avoid or minimize the impacts on biodiversity during raw material procurement operations. We have identified our impacts and dependencies on biodiversity and ecosystem services and assessed associated risks. In areas where intensified biodiversity efforts are needed, TOPPAN takes assertive approaches to conserving local environments based on preventative and adaptive strategies formulated from a long-term perspective. Our conservation activities focus on cooperation with community members and various other stakeholders with links to biodiversity. We believe that biodiversity conservation and the sustainable use of biodiverse resources help us enhance environmental security and decarbonize society.

TOPPAN is intensifying supply chain management, environmental initiatives, and cooperation with local communities throughout Group operations. These activities will enable us to achieve our commitment to restoring natural ecosystems over the 20-year period from 2030 to 2050. We will take urgent steps to halt and reverse biodiversity loss in order to put nature on a recovery track by 2030 and beyond, as called for under the Kunming- Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF).

The actions required for biodiversity conservation throughout the Group are shown below.