Conservation of natural capital
Our products rely on the benefits of natural capital, including soil, water, climate, and biodiversity. Protecting these resources is essential for stable growth and realizing a sustainable society.
For the Calbee Group to continue to grow globally, it is important to address biodiversity issues, identify dependencies and impacts, and create responses and opportunities to anticipated risks.
As part of these efforts, we aim to realize a sustainable global environment by integrating and disclosing TCFD (Climate-related Financial Disclosure Task Force) and TNFD (Nature-related Financial Disclosure Task Force), which are initiatives for biodiversity.
Main initiatives
Natural Capital for the Future
The Calbee Group both depends on and impacts nature in the form of natural capital throughout its supply chain. Calbee’s Potato Chips products are dependent on nature for raw materials, such as potatoes and palm oil, as well as the fuel and water used in the production process. Our business activities also have an impact on the environment, including the use of pesticides and fertilizers in potato cultivation, the use of plastics made from petroleum resources, land development, and greenhouse gas emissions.
There are a range of challenges associated with the supply chain of raw ingredients, which are heavily dependent on nature’s gifts.
They include the excessive use of resources, loss and degradation of biodiversity resulting from development of areas where our ingredients are grown and greenhouse gas emissions from forest and land clearing. We are striving to address and deal with these challenges.
The Calbee Group is closely connected to nature, and many of the themes that we prioritize regarding materials are also associated with nature.
In terms of the materiality of “Progress to develop sustainable agriculture” and “Caring for the Earth” we are cultivating and developing potato varieties that are resistant to climate change, analyzing soil in fields that differ depending on the soil type and conditions, and proposing appropriate fertilizers to contracted producers to enable greater potato harvests.
To address environmental and human rights issues associated with palm oil and paper, we pursue sustainable procurement by expanding our use of RSPO certified palm oil and FSC certified paper.
The connection between Calbee’s business and natural capital
In line with the official version of TNFD Framework released in September 2023, the Calbee Group implemented integrated disclosures of TCFD・TNFD in 2025. Climate change and biodiversity are two sides of the same coin. Through our company activities, we contribute not only to combating climate change, but also to conserving the natural environment, and we promote business activities that are compatible with natural capital based on our corporate philosophy. The Calbee Group's business is particularly important for the sustainability of raw materials at the point of contact between the value chain and natural capital. The Calbee Group will work together with all value chains to address issues and propose new value.
Integrated information disclosure based on the TCFD and TNFD frameworks(opens in new window)
