GHG management
GHG management
In order to actively identify key factors for mitigating climate change, Canon conducted a greenhouse gas emissions inventory for the year 2023 in accordance with the ISO 14064:2018 standard and completed third-party verification. In addition to the greenhouse gas emissions from its own operations (Categories 1 and 2), in terms of other indirect greenhouse gas emissions (Categories 3-6), factors such as occurence frequency, potential for improvement, activity data sources, emission coefficient and other significant factors, and identified major indirect GHG emission sources such as upstream raw material emissions from purchased products, logisitcal transportation and goods distribution, business travel and product use. A total of 7 indirect emissions were disclosed. Ability's 2023 greenhouse gas emissions for categories 1 and 2 were 8,604.5827 tons of CO2e.
The category 1 and category 2 GHG emissions in 2023
Unit : tCO2e/year
Other indirect greenhouse gas emissions in 2023
Unit : tCO2e/year
| Category Items | Scope of Coverage (Operational Bases) | GHG emissions (tCO2e/year) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Category 3 | Upstream transportation and distribution | Taiwan, China Dongguan Plant | 45.3283 |
| Category 3 | Downstream transportation and distribution | Taiwan, China Dongguan Plant | 16.0300 |
| Category 3 | Employee commuting | Taiwan | 227.3311 |
| Category 3 | Business trip | Taiwan, China Dongguan Plant | 112.2241 |
| Category 4 | Purchase goods (raw material emissions) | Taiwan, China Dongguan Plant | 21,753.3219 |
| Category 4 | Purchased fuel and energy resources (upstream emissions) | Taiwan, China Dongguan Plant | 552.8161 |
| Category 5 | Product use | Taiwan, China Dongguan Plant | 4,496.8696 |
| Total | 27,203.9204 | ||
Improvement Effects under Energy-Saving Measures in 2023
Unit : tCO2e/year
| Location | Improvement Item in 2023 | Annual Energy-Saving Volume (kWh) | Annual energy-saving volume (Gj)(Note 1) | Annual carbon reduction amount (kg CO2e) (Note 2) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Taiwan HQ | Lighting microwave sensor switches are added to the elevator halls on B4F, B5F, B6F and other floors, with an energy saving rate of 95%. | 1,888.80(Note 3) | 6.79 | 933.07 |
| Taiwan Wugu Plant | Replaced with 5 inverter air conditioner hosts | 647,789(Note 4) | 233.24 | 32,005.77 |
| 4F, No. 2 was replaced with LED energy-saving lamps. The energy saving rate is 76% while the original usage time remains the same. | 2,100(Note 4) | 7.56 | 1,037.40 | |
| China Dongguan Plant | Workshops and conference rooms were replaced with LED energy-saving lamps | 37,667(Note 4) | 135.60 | 18,645.17 |
| Replaced with energy-saving air compressor equipment | 118,794(Note 4) | 427.66 | 58,803.03 | |
| Energy-saving renovation of employees' domestic hot water (from heat pump to solar + heat pump assistance) | 26,570(Note 4) | 95.65 | 13,152.15 | |
| SMT hot air air conditioners are transformed into shared cold water pipes for workshop air conditioners | 10,140(Note 4) | 36.50 | 5,019.30 | |
| The water-cooled cabinet in the semi-product warehouse was transformed into a wall cabinet type | 3,312(Note 4) | 11.92 | 1,639.44 | |
| Replaced with energy-saving air conditioner equipment | 133,896(Note 4) | 482.03 | 66,278.52 | |
| Total | 399,156.80 | 1,436.95 | 197,513.85 | |