Compliance Committee
The Compliance Committee offers advice on basic policy and
responses regarding compliance management, including legal
compliance and improving corporate ethics, and also dis-
cusses and monitors implementation.
The president chairs this body, whose members include
directors, the chairperson of the Company’s labor union and
external experts. This committee works to ensure neutrality,
transparency and objectivity.
Compliance Action Guidelines
The Compliance Action Guidelines serve as a touchstone for
all corporate officers and employees to enable them to choose
to act in a way that is in step with social norms. It contains
points to remember in maintaining relationships with custom-
ers, shareholders, investors and other stakeholders, as well
as specific examples of problematic acts.
Promoting Compliance Management
Compliance Management Promotion System
Promotion System
Kyushu Electric Power has a Compliance Committee, which is
chaired by the president. This committee appoints the heads
of implementation bodies as compliance officers to ensure
Company-wide compliance management. We have also set up
internal and external (attorney’s office) compliance consulting
desks that work collectively as an internal reporting (whistle-
blower) system.
Regarding the compliance promotion system for the Group,
we have set up the Group CSR Subcommittee. In addition,
each Group company has a compliance committee, consulta-
tion desks and other compliance structures.
CSR Management
Board of Directors (Kyushu Electric Power) Consultation desks Group companies
President
Report
President
Report
Consultation
Consultation
Employees
Corporate Officers
Employees
Corporate
Officers
Business
partners
Compliance
officers
Compliance
consulting desks
Compliance
Subcommittee
Assesses specific initiatives
Implementation bodies
(Head Office departments, branch offices, and centers)
Implement activities
Group CSR
Subcommittee
Group Companies
Implement activities
Compliance officers
(Heads of Head Office departments,
branch offices, and centers)
Positions responsible for compliance
(branch offices directly under the control of
branch heads)
Compliance Committee
Compliance officers
Formulate policy, etc.
Compliance officers
(Senior executive level)
In-house members
Liaise
Compliance consulting
desks
(internal and external)
Chairperson: President
Members: Directors, head of labor union
and external experts
Corporate auditor
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Kyushu Electric Power Group Environment
Charter
We created the Kyushu Electric Power Group Environmental
Charter to clarify our commitment to environmental
management.
Kyushu Electric Power Group Environmental
Action Plan
The Kyushu Electric Power Group Environmental Action Plan
includes five environmental conduct policies—environmental
initiatives, helping create a recycling-oriented society, environ-
mental protection, harmonizing with society, and pursuing
environmental management—environmental goals, and spe-
cific environmental conduct plans.
Kyushu Electric Power Group Environment Charter
Pursuing environmentally friendly corporate activities
The Kyushu Electric Power Group undertakes initia-
tives to preserve and harmonize with the global envi-
ronment to contribute to the development of
sustainable society.
1. We strive to properly address environmental issues
and use resources effectively while pursuing busi-
ness activities that lead toward the future.
2. We work with society to engage in initiatives that
enhance the environment.
3. We foster interest in conservation in keeping with our
desire to earn customer trust for the Group.
4. We proactively disclose environmental information
when communicating with society.
Harmonizing our
operations with the
environment
Helping build a
sustainable
society1Environmental
initiatives5Pursuing
environmental
management4Harmonizing
with society3Environmental
protection2Helping create
a recycling-
oriented
society
Environmental Conduct Policies
Environmental Management Promotion System (As of July 31, 2012)
Policies and plans
Head office Branch offices Centers
Administrative bodies Construction operations
CSR Promotion Committee
President
Group Environmental
Management Subcommittee Discussion and determination of specific
initiatives for promoting environmental
management in Group companies
Liaise
Opinions
Proposals and reports
Activity
reports
Environmental Committee
Comprehensive deliberations of Company-wideenvironmental activity strategy
Promotion System
We have established a framework that ties directly to management and created an evaluation body of external experts.
External evaluation
regarding the Kyushu
Electric Power Group’s
environmental
management
Kyushu
Electric
Power
Environmen-
tal Advisory
Council
Promoting Environmental Management
22 Kyushu Electric Power Company Annual Report 2012111009080597900.436
0.295
0.365 [0.374]
0.348
[0.369]
[0.385]
[0.525]
0.348 0.348
0.503
[3,210]
2,990
[3,080]
2,91085.955.8
2,43069.92,06083.03,03083.4[3,370]
3,05087.5[4,480]
4,30085.42008–2012
average (FY)
Initiatives to Curtail CO2 Emissions
CO2 emissions per kWh of electricity sold for fiscal 2011 were
0.503 kg-CO2*. This represented a 16% increase compared
with fiscal 1990, the benchmark year for the Kyoto Protocol.
CO2 emissions totaled 43 million metric tons, up 12.5 million
metric tons from fiscal 2010.
These increases were due to a large increase in thermal
power generation, mainly as a result of delays restarting oper-
ations at nuclear power plants.
While it will be extremely difficult to achieve our CO2 reduc-
tion goal, we will continue to do our best.
* Provisional figure; the government will officially announce the actual figure based on
the Act on Promotion of Global Warming Countermeasures.
Kyushu Homeland Forestation Program
The Kyushu Homeland Forestation Program was launched in
fiscal 2001 to commemorate our 50th anniversary, with a
target of planting 1 million trees over 10 years. This target
was achieved in fiscal 2010, the 10th year of the program.
We are continuing to run the Kyushu Homeland Forestation
Program from fiscal 2011 onwards, with the aims of contribut-
ing to the realization of a low-carbon society and preserving
biodiversity. In fiscal 2011, with the cooperation of around
7,000 people, we planted approximately 48,000 trees under
the program in 34 locations, as well as cut underbrush.
That means in the 11 years the program has been running
approximately 1.14 million trees have been planted in total, by
some 136,000 people.GoalCut average CO2 emissions per kWh of electricity sold for
fiscal 2008 through fiscal 2012 by
around 20%from fiscal 1990 levels
(reduce to around 0.348 kg-CO2/kWh)
CO2 emissions per kWh of electricity sold (kg-CO2/kWh)
Electricity sales (billion kWh) CO2 emissions (ten thousand t-CO2)
[ ] Numbers before reflecting carbon credits
Calculated based on Japanese government’s formula for CO2 emissions by business.
Company CO2 Emissions and CO2 Emissions per kWh of
Electricity Sold
Began operating
No. 3 unit of
Genkai Nuclear
Power Station
(in March 1994)
–20%
target
11 Years of Activities
No. of locations 576 in total
No. of trees planted 1,144,000 in total
No. of participants 135,750 in total
0.348
(Targeted)
Started operating
No. 4 unit of
Genkai Nuclear
Power Station
(in July 1997)
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