Material Balance and Environmental Accounting

Material Balance

Kyowa Kirin Group strives to reduce its environmental impacts. The following shows an overview of environmental impacts in fiscal 2020 imposed by our plants and research laboratories.

  • *
    Due to rounding, some totals may not correspond with the sum of the breakdown.

Environmental Accounting

Kyowa Kirin Group identifies how much investment was made in environmental protection and the economic effects in quantitative terms. In 2020, total investment and total costs amounted to 430 million yen and 783 million yen, respectively. At the new plant building constructed in the course of reorganizing plants and research laboratories, environmentally friendly facilities were installed, including highly energy-efficient equipment. The economic effect generated by recycling waste (as valuable resources) and saving energy amounted to approximately 22 million yen.

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Environmental conservation cost*1,2
Cost classification FY2020 FY2019 FY2018
Investment Expense Investment Expense Investment Expense
(1) Business area cost 423 587 340 546 149 595
Details (1)-1 Pollution prevention cost 106 284 129 313 32 353
(1)-2 Global environment conservation cost 313 92 207 63 116 66
(1)-3 Resource circulation cost 5 211 4 169 1 176
(2) Upstream/downstream cost 0 0 0 0 0 3
(3) Administration cost 7 195 32 189 4 177
(4) R&D cost 0 0 0 0 0 0
(5) Social activity cost 0 1 0 2 0 2
(6) Environmental remediation cost 0 0 0 0 0 0
Total 430 783 372 783 153 777

(Millions of yen)

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Economic benefit*1,2
Item Activities FY2020 FY2019 FY2018
Total investment Expansion and rationalization of production and research facilities 13,876

9,733

3,979
Total R&D cost R&D for new products and technologies 50,301

24,145

43,215
Sales of valuables in connection with (1)-3 and (2) Sale of dried fungus fertilizer, used catalysts, and by-product oil 5 12 13
Resource-saving effects in connection with (1)-2 and (1)-3 Energy and resource conservation and waste reduction 17 20 6

(Millions of yen)

  • *1:
    Calculated based on "Environmental Accounting Guidelines 2005 (Ministry of the Environment)".
  • *2:
    Due to rounding, some totals may not correspond with the sum of the breakdown.