We endeavor to preserve the global environment, reduce our environmental impact through our business and social contribution activities, and contribute to the realization of a society that can develop sustainably.

• We endeavor to make further improvements to convenience and to create appealing value along our railways, with a focus on providing environmentally friendly public transportation.
• We endeavor to reduce our impact on the environment through the effective use of resources and energy, as well as initiatives to reduce, reuse, and recycle waste.
• We endeavor to coexist with and preserve the rich natural environment along our railway lines so that our children, who will lead the next generation, inherit a better environment surrounding the railway.
• We place value on communication with all of our stakeholders, and endeavor to cooperate and work together with local communities.
• We endeavor to fully comprehend and comply with environmental laws and regulations and to increase the environmental awareness of all of our employees through awareness campaigns and educational activities.

With the aim of helping to realize a carbon-neutral society, we have established long-term environmental targets. We will advance and appropriately monitor initiatives to reduce GHG emissions.

We have positioned ESG initiatives as the basis of business management and pursue sustainability measures including climate change countermeasures as a matter of management strategy. In addition, we conducted analysis and disclosure based on the TCFD recommendations in June 2022 with the aim of helping to realize a carbon-neutral society. We will continue moving forward with climate change countermeasures while further increasing analysis and disclosure.

　
• For details on disclosure based on the TCFD recommendations, please visit here (only available in Japanese).

　

　

　

By fiscal 2010, we had discontinued all traditional resistance-controlled railcars and replaced them with energy-saving railcars equipped with regenerative brakes. In addition, we have progressively introduced variable voltage variable frequency (VVVF)-controlled railcars, which are more efficient in regenerating electricity than field chopper-controlled railcars. As of the end of fiscal 2023, VVVF-controlled railcars accounted for approximately 100% of our railcars.

For use in the operation of facilities, we have introduced solar power generation to some of our railway stations and Group companies.

Changeover to renewable energy

Keikyu Corporation
• Electricity consumption of the operations of the Airport Line (since 2021)
• Electricity consumption of the business operations of 19 railways stations on the Keikyu Main Line between Keikyū Higashi-kanagawa and Kanazawa-hakkei Stations and all railway stations on the Zushi Line (since 2021)
• Electricity consumption of the Keikyu Group head office, which includes the offices of 12 Group companies (since 2021)
• Electricity consumption of the business operations* of six railway stations on the Kurihama Line between Keikyū Kurihama and Misakiguchi Stations (since June 2023)

Group companies
• Electricity consumption of Hayama Marina (since April 2023)
• Electricity consumption of certain real estate properties owned by Rinko Estate Co., Ltd. (since April 2023)

The aforementioned introduction of electricity generated from renewable energy sources reduces CO₂ emissions by an amount equivalent to approximately 12,000 tons per year.

• *Railway station lighting, air conditioners, railway station equipment, railway crossings, and signals

In an effort to minimize environmental impact, Keihin Kyuko Bus Co., Ltd., has been operating SORA fuel cell buses and compact electric buses, which were introduced in 2019 and March 2023, respectively. Meanwhile, Kawasaki Tsurumi Rinko Bus Co., Ltd., has been working to reduce the burden on the environment by operating buses that use biodiesel fuel.

To promote a recycling-based society, we are making effective use of finite resources and reducing waste. As a corporate group with rich marine environments in our lineside areas, we are also actively advancing initiatives to reduce ocean plastic waste.

In March 2019, Kawasaki Tsurumi Rinko Bus concluded an agreement with the city of Kawasaki for the use of water that has undergone advanced treatment at the Iriezaki Wastewater Treatment Center. By washing buses with water produced from the advanced treatment of sewage, we will utilize water resources effectively and help build a society based on recycling and consideration for the global environment.

In 2019, we concluded an agreement with Kanagawa Prefecture on cooperation and collaboration for the promotion of the SDGs. As part of this initiative, we are promoting the Keikyu Group Plastic Waste Reduction Campaign, which is focused on reducing ocean plastic waste. Aiming to help realize SDG 14, which calls on humankind to “Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development,” the Keikyu Group is implementing a range of activities, such as conducting cleanup activities at beaches, popularizing reusable shopping bags, and introducing straws made of biodegradable materials, throughout the Group.

We contribute to the conservation of biodiversity through activities to preserve the natural environment in lineside areas and through
environmentally friendly business activities.

Launched in February 2023, the Miura Forest Project aims to further demonstrate the capacity of these forests to absorb carbon dioxide through the sound management of the approximately 100 hectares of Company-owned forests in the Miura Peninsula, as well as create beautiful and highly functional forests that help preserve biodiversity and open up possibilities for the future.

One of Miura’s irreplaceable assets, Koajiro Forest still has a natural water system as well as a valuable ecosystem that is home to rare species. As part of our cooperation in efforts to protect the natural environment, we have voluntarily preserved roughly 10 hectares of our forest and donated approximately 2 hectares to Kanagawa Prefecture in response to its designation of Koajiro as a special suburban green space preservation area.