In the Negative Emission Factory Initiative, Nitto aims to achieve negative emissions by integrating the technologies Nitto has cultivated to date, including the capture of CO₂ inevitably emitted at our business sites, for ensuring carbon neutrality in 2050.
As a specific effort, Nitto introduced and started trial operation of a demonstration unit that directly captures boiler exhaust gas at the Shiga Plant^*3.　Furthermore, Nitto aims to make further progress by establishing and improving the efficiency of technologies for capturing atmospheric CO₂ and chemical conversion of CO₂, linking ESG initiatives to new business opportunities through a total solution proposal for CO₂ reduction, and accelerating simultaneously solving social issues and creating economic value.

Nitto Group places ESG at the core of management and certifies its products and services which contribute to sustainable global environment and healthy lives of people as PlanetFlags™/HumanFlags™ (Products that contribute to the environment/humanity)^*4. In addition to this certification scheme, Nitto will accelerate the creation of PlanetFlags™/HumanFlags™ products.

*1 Technology that removes CO₂ from the atmosphere by capturing, absorbing, storing, and fixing CO₂ in the atmosphere.
*2 Scope1+2 (https://www.nitto.com/jp/en/press/2022/0519.jsp Published on May 19, 2022)
*3 Nitto plans to increase the amount to 3,000 tons/year by 2025
*4 In 2022, Nitto established a scheme to visualize the contribution of products and services produced by Nitto Group to the earth and humanity, and certify products and services with particularly high contribution as PlanetFlags™/HumanFlags™ (products that contribute to the environment and humanity). Resources will be concentrated on development and technological themes that can contribute to one of these products.
　(https://www.nitto.com/jp/en/press/2022/0729.jsp Published on July 29, 2022)