Environment

Basic approach

Mitsubishi HC Capital has established the Sustainability Committee as an advisory body to the Executive Committee to promote sustainability-conscious management throughout the Group. We position environmental issues, most notably climate change, as one of our most important management issues and formulate and implement environmental plans accordingly.
Furthermore, based on the ISO 14001:2015 international standard for environmental management systems, we operate efficient and effective environmental management systems across four groups of divisions, namely the sales, office-based, lease-up asset handling, and internal audit divisions. These systems are overseen by the Head of the IT & Operations Division, who is also a member of the Sustainability Committee.

ISO 14001 certification

To ensure the achievement of environmental targets and promote ongoing improvement, since 2001, the following companies and divisions have been certified under the ISO 14001:2015 international standard for environmental management systems: the Marunouchi Office of Mitsubishi HC Capital Inc. (the head office of Mitsubishi UFJ Lease & Finance Company Limited at time of certification), the head office of MHC Business Company Limited (formerly MUL Business Company Limited), the Tokyo office of MHC Eco-Business Co., Ltd. (formerly MUL Eco-Business Co., Ltd.), MHC Reuse Services Corporation (formerly Hitachi Capital Services Co., Ltd.), and Mitsubishi HC Capital UK PLC (formerly Hitachi Capital (UK) PLC).

Compliance with environmental laws and regulations

As a part of its compliance activities, the Mitsubishi HC Capital Group ensures that all executives and employees fully comply with applicable laws and regulations, including those related to the environment, and carries out regular compliance checks.

• Applies on an MHC Group consolidated basis for FYE3/2022.
  For FYE3/2021, the upper figures represent the former Mitsubishi UFJ Lease & Finance and its group companies, and the
  lower figures represent the former Hitachi Capital and its group companies.

Environmental education

The Mitsubishi HC Capital Group strives to ensure compliance with environmental laws and regulations related to its business activities, collect information about such laws and regulations, provide such information to stakeholders, and enhance its employees' understanding of environmental issues. To this end, we have established the following policy on environmental education and implement environmental education for all employees. In particular, at office-based divisions, we check paper and electricity usage and implement awareness-raising to encourage each department and office to find ways to reduce consumption.

Environmental Education Policy

1. Promote the acquisition of basic knowledge and check knowledge every fiscal year
2. Proactively accept environmental information from stakeholders
3. Maintain a framework that enables each department or office to check regulations in their respective communities
4. Proactively provide environmental information to stakeholders
5. Gather accurate environmental data about lease assets and disclose such data to customers
6. Raise awareness about working to reduce paper and electricity consumption in office-based divisions