Action Plans
Compliance
- JAL Group will comply with domestic and international laws, regulations, ordinances, and treaties.
- JAL Group will revise the environmental management regulations and related rules, and will operate according to these regulations.
Reducing Environmental Impact
(1) Climate Change Initiatives
- We aim to reduce CO2 emissions per revenue-ton-kilometer from JAL Group aircraft by 23 percent from FY2005 by FY2020.
- We will modernize to fuel efficient aircraft.
- We will pursue CO2 emission reduction initiatives under programs such as eco-flight activities, reduce weight of loads, clean engines, among others.
- Going forward, we will cooperate with Air Traffic Control related ministries, agencies, and authorities in each country, among others, to proactively implement advanced flight systems with optimum fuel efficiencies
- We will reduce total CO2 emissions from our ground vehicles.
- We will promote energy conservation activities in our ground facilities, such as our offices, and factories, to name a few.
(2) Effective Utilization of Limited Resources
- We will use less water.
- We will reduce food waste.
- We will use less plastic.
- We will move from paper-based to digital documents.
(3) Pollution Prevention
- We aim to reduce the final disposal rate of industry waste from domestic offices to two percent and below.
- We will reduce the amount and emissions of environmentally hazardous substances subject to the Law for Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (PRTR Law).
- We will reduce aircraft engine NOx emissions, among others.
(4) Noise Reduction
- We will modernize to low noise aircrafts adapted to International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Chapter 14 standards.
- We will proactively implement noise abatement operations.
- We will proactively respond to airport noise issues.
(5) Biodiversity Conservation
- We will minimize the consequences to the ecosystem by containing the environmental impact arising from our business activities.
- We will prevent unexpected shipment by constantly considering threats to the ecosystem such as transport of potentially-hazardous non-native species.
- To prevent adverse effects to the ecosystem, we will fully understand the how substances, which were obtained or delivered for our business activities, were excavated, manufactured, shipped, disposed, discarded, among others, and the handling procedures outside our company.
- We will raise awareness within and outside our company about the importance of biodiversity.
Development of Environmental Technology
- We will proactively proceed in using bio-jet fuel.
- We will continue to cooperate and participate in the Comprehensive Observation Network for Trace gases by an Airliner (CONTRAIL) Project, a study to monitor the CO2 density on the Earth to unravel global warming mechanisms.
- We will cooperate in the studies and development of future aircrafts and flight operation systems with low environmental impact.
Raising Awareness
- We will proactively promote environmental activities for our employees and educational programs about the environment for our employees and their families.
- We will continue Soraiku, an environmental awareness program in which pilots visit primary and junior high schools around Japan and explain changes on Earth as seen from the sky.
Disclose Information
- We will continue to engage in dialogue with our stakeholders.
- We will improve the information and improve searchability on our Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) webpage.
* These actions plans are for fiscal year 2019.