(Head office: Hakata-ku, Fukuoka City; Representative Director: Shunsuke Managi; hereafter 'the Company'), a start-up from Kyushu University, has launched aiESG, the world's first product and service-level ESG analysis service. The Company has contracted with Infronia Holdings Corporation, Nitto Denko Corporation, Kyushu Electric Power Company, Saibu Gas Holdings, Avanti Corporation and hap Corporation as launch customers for ESG analysis and assessment. Sojitz Corporation, Sojitz Corporation, PwC Consulting G.K., Dogan Inc. and Sustainable Scale Inc. under the umbrella of Fukuoka Financial Group Inc. as alliance partners. Sojitz Corporation, PwC Consulting G.K., Dogan Inc. and Sustainable Scale Inc.
What is aiESG (aiESG), a product-level ESG analysis service?
In recent years, ESG initiatives have become increasingly important for companies. The Japanese Government announced the Carbon Neutral Declaration in October 2020, and in April 2023 it became a de facto requirement for public procurement to identify and improve human rights violations. However, assessing social impacts, including human rights, at the product level requires extensive estimates throughout the global supply chain. The challenge for companies has therefore been how to estimate social impacts and identify ESG risks in a variety of areas around the world.
aiESG is the world's first service that enables comprehensive ESG analysis at product and service level. Using AI analysis based on our ESG supply chain big data, aiESG can provide detailed calculations for more than 3,200 ESG indicators and enables comparisons with industry averages and conventional products. In particular, the CO2It is the world's first solution in that it can quantitatively assess not only environmental aspects such as human rights, biodiversity and labour environment, but also social and governance aspects, including human rights, biodiversity and labour environment, which have become increasingly important in recent years.
List of aiESG assessment items (excerpts)
Furthermore, analysis by aiESG enables geographical estimation, which is difficult with conventional Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), and enables visualisation of environmental, social and corporate governance hotspots, not only for direct suppliers, but also for secondary and upstream suppliers.
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In addition, as the only data required from the customer is product cost composition data or physical quantity data, ESG supply chain disclosures, which previously required huge amounts of man-hours, are facilitated.
The results of this estimation will be verified and certification services will be provided by an international academic organisation. This certification service will enable the company to demonstrate its ESG initiatives more clearly to investors and consumers. An announcement on this certification will be made shortly by the certifying body.
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A PR event will also be held on 11 May (Thu 11 May) from 11am for interested companies and media to freely listen to our services (click here to register (https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Qm0WJQFhRPyNtJUL0oIkog).
Furthermore, for companies in the apparel industry in particular, an introduction to the use of our services for sustainable fashion and other examples will be held on Tuesday 16 May at 11am (click here to register (https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_kqvBk9XRSByooi3I3DkaDg).
Introduction of launch customers and alliances
The following companies and alliances are launch customers of this ESG analysis service, aiESG.
<Launch customer.
Infronia Holdings Ltd.
... Nitto Denko Corporation.
... Kyusyu Electric Power Co.
... Western Gas Holdings Ltd.
... Avanti Corporation.
HAP Corporation.
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... Deloitte Tohmatsu Consulting G.K.
... Sojitz Corporation.
... PwC Consulting LLC.
... Doogan Inc.
... Sustainable Scale, Inc.
Executive Officer, Sustainability Promotion, Infronia Holdings Ltd.
Comment from Shinya Sakaguchi
Infronia Holdings is taking on the challenge of transforming itself into a 'comprehensive infrastructure services company' with a free thinking approach that is not bound by the 'build and build' approach of the past. We have recently launched an ESG analysis by aiESG to visualise what contribution our infrastructure operation business is making to society. We want to use it not only as a quantitative evaluation of ESG initiatives that trace back through the supply chain, but also as an indicator that can provide hints for new businesses by visualising elements such as initiatives to solve social issues that could not be quantified before, and even converting them into economic value. We are very much looking forward to working with aiESG, the world's first ESG assessment that is distinct from conventional ESG assessments.
Senior Executive Officer, Nitto Denko Corporation
Comment by Nobuyuki Aoki
Nitto Denko is a high-performance materials manufacturer that provides a wide range of products from electronics to life sciences on a global scale. The company places ESG at the heart of its management and has established an internal scheme to visualise the degree of contribution to the global environment and human society made by the products and services it provides, and to certify products and services that make a particularly high contribution as PlanetFlags™/HumanFlags™.
We believe that by utilising aiESG's services, we can streamline the collection, analysis and reporting of ESG information for sustainable management, leading to the formulation of more concrete measures and confirmation of progress. We will continue to link ESG initiatives to new business opportunities, aiming to both solve social issues and create economic value.
Executive Director, Deloitte Tohmatsu Consulting G.K.
Comment by Hiroyoshi Niwa
Deloitte Tohmatsu Consulting is committed to solving corporate issues and providing sustainable value to society by providing support for activities across the strategy and management cycle to enhance corporate value in the area of ESG. aiESG is the only tool in the world to quantitatively assess a wide range of ESG items on a product and service basis, particularly human rights and the labour environment. aiESG is a powerful tool to support the formulation of ESG strategies to enhance corporate value and the establishment of a business portfolio for medium- to long-term growth. aiESG is the only tool in the world capable of quantitatively evaluating a wide range of ESG items, particularly human rights and the labour environment, on a product and service basis, and provides powerful support for the concrete implementation of ESG strategies aimed at increasing corporate value and establishing a business portfolio that can grow over the medium to long term. As alliance partners, the two companies will work together to improve corporate value and realise a sustainable society by working together on the further sophistication of ESG assessments and developing services.
Sojitz Corporationexecutive officer General Manager, Metals, Resources and Recycling Division
Comment from Osamu Matsuura
As a general trading company, we are developing globally to 'provide goods and services in pursuit of a market-in perspective', and there is an even stronger need to create an ESG-conscious supply chain.
The world is beginning to pay attention to the complementary nature of climate change and biodiversity, and is moving towards strengthening carbon neutral and nature positive initiatives throughout the supply chain on both axes. Furthermore, consideration for human rights is also essential for responsible supply chains.
The world's first service launched by aiESG is considered unique and innovative in that 1) it enables ESG assessments of the entire supply chain on a product or service basis, and 2) the product was designed by Mr Managi (President of the company), a world-leading researcher in the field of natural capital.
We expect that this alliance partnership will provide strong support from the ESG assessment aspect for the resource and materials supply chain development we are promoting with our customers.
About aiESG (aiESG) Ltd.
We are a start-up company from Kyushu University that aims to realise a sustainable society through product- and service-level ESG analysis. We provide aiESG, an ESG assessment platform that traces back the entire supply chain, based on the results of many years of international and academic ESG research, including UN report representatives.
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Company profile
Name of company: aiESG Inc.
Head office: 2F NMF Hakata Ekimae Building, 1-15-20 Hakata Ekimae, Hakata-ku, Fukuoka City, Fukuoka
President : Shunsuke Managi
Business : Product/service level ESG analysis business.
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Establishment : July 2022.
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