Canon begins working with suppliers to use actual CO2 emissions data for office MFDs, and discloses the improved data through an environmental label

TOKYO, March 3, 2025—Canon Inc. announced today that, in cooperation with Nidec Corporation, headquartered in Kyoto, Japan ("Nidec"), the company has calculated the CO₂ emissions of the imageRUNNER ADVANCE DX C5840i¹, office multifunction device (MFD), using, for the first time, Nidec's CO₂ emissions data for a specific part in the Canon product. For the MFD, Canon also disclosed the SuMPO EPD (Eco Leaf) environmental label ("SuMPO EPD"²), which is administered by the Sustainable Management Promotion Organization ("SuMPO") under its SuMPO Environment Program initiative.

The environmental label SuMPO EPD is a framework that quantitatively discloses environmental information throughout the entire life cycle of registered products. Using industry-average CO₂ emission factors for each material, Canon calculates the CO₂ emissions of a product based on the amount of that material which is used.

This is one of Canon's pioneering efforts to reduce CO₂ emissions based on primary CO₂ data about raw materials and parts provided by suppliers. At the same time, Canon considers it important to disclose environmental information to customers and investors, and will strengthen these efforts.

Canon will promote this approach to more products in collaboration with more suppliers to better align with the decarbonization of society.

Canon Group Environmental Targets

Canon is committed to protecting the global environment based on the Canon Group Environmental Vision. With regard to climate change measures, in 2008 Canon set a medium-term environmental target of improving the improvement index per life-cycle CO₂ product by an average of 3% per year. To date, the company has achieved an average annual improvement of 3.95% (from 2008 to 2023) and 44.4% from 2008. It also aims to reduce CO₂ emissions in accordance with SBTi³ standards by 42% from 2022 levels for Scope 1 and 2⁴ emissions and 25% for Scope 3⁴ (Category 1 and 11⁴) emissions by 2030.

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  Available only in the U.S.

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  A Japanese environmental label that quantitatively discloses environmental information on products using the LCA (life cycle assessment) method

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  SBTi (Science Based Targets initiative) is an international initiative to encourage companies to set greenhouse gas emission reduction targets based on climate science. It is jointly managed by four organizations: United Nations Global Compact (UNGC), World Resources Institute (WRI), World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and CDP.

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  Scope 1: Direct emissions (City gas, LPG, diesel oil, kerosene, non-energy greenhouse gases, etc.)
  Scope 2: Indirect emissions (Electricity, steam, etc.)
  Scope 3: Emissions in the supply chain, Category 1: Purchased goods and services; Category 11: Use of sold products.