Corporate Leadership Activities
Our social contribution activities revolve around a high degree of public spiritedness, and include eco-friendly activities.
Basic Concept for Approaches to Environmental Problems
The Bank formulated a basic concept for approaches to environmental problems in developing activities in consideration of the environment.
- Promotion of Energy Conservation/Recycling in the Bank Group
For prevention of global warming, the Bank joined “Team Minus 6%” to promote energy conservation and recycling with the aim of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by the Bank Group. - Cooperation in environmental preservation activities with customers and local communities through provision of financial instruments and services
Through provision of financial instruments and services, we will actively cooperate in environmental preservation activities with customers and local communities. - Implementing an actions conscious of environmental preservation by every officer and every employee
The Bank aims to improve the consciousness of environmental preservation with all officers and employees, putting conduct that is conscious of environmental preservation into practice. Officers and employees of the Bank Group will review and implement measures for environmental preservation in every business activity and every one of us will carry out what we can do in the sphere of our activities.
Participation in “Team Minus 6%”
In May 2008 the Bank joined “Team Minus 6%,” a national campaign aimed at fighting global warming, and the Bank Group is reducing the amount of electricity it uses by changing the way it uses lighting, PCs and elevators. The Bank is also working to cut CO2 emissions by, for example, ensuring that company vehicles are driven in an eco-friendly, fuel-efficient manner and participating in the government´s “Cool Biz” and “Warm Biz” campaigns (which call for workers to wear cool, casual attire in summer and warm clothes in winter and for air conditioners and heating to be turned down).
Environmental preservation activities through financial instruments and services
The Bank is involved in Kanagawa Prefecture´s “Cool Renaissance” anti-global-warming initiative, and operating the “Hamagin Eco Fund” to reduce the interest rate on loans provided by local governments to finance purchases of eco-friendly equipment such as low-emission vehicles and solar power generation systems. It is also implementing an “Eco Time Deposit Campaign” that will see it donate up to two million yen to a fund for preserving areas of greenery, linking a donation ratio with the balance in new time deposit accounts opened during a given period of time.
The Bank also participated in the “Housing Loan Environmental Support Campaign,” which enabled mortgage customers to participate indirectly in environmental conservation initiatives. Under this campaign, 42 regional banks pooled funds for the joint purchase of “Green Power Certificates,” which are issued by entities generating power from natural energy sources. The amount contributed by each bank was determined based on such factors as the number of housing loans on its books. Furthermore, among the products we offer to individual customers, there are funds that only invest in companies that are taking action to fight global warming.
