(Head Office: Hakata-ku, Fukuoka City; Representative Director: Shunsuke Managi; hereinafter "aiESG"), a Kyushu University startup, 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 Godo Kaisha, Dorgan Corporation, and SustainableScale Corporation, a subsidiary of Fukuoka Financial Group, Inc. Sojitz Corporation, PwC Consulting Godo Kaisha, Dogan Co.

What is aiESG, a product-level ESG analysis service?

In recent years, ESG initiatives have become increasingly important for companies. In October 2020, the Japanese government announced the Carbon Neutral Declaration, and in April 2023, it became a de facto requirement for public procurement to identify and improve human rights violations. However, in order to assess social impacts, including human rights, at the product level, it is necessary to make extensive estimates throughout the global supply chain. Therefore, the challenge for companies has been how to estimate social impacts and understand ESG risks in a variety of areas around the world.

aiESG is the world's first service that enables comprehensive ESG analysis at the 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 compare them to industry averages and conventional products. In particular, it is possible to compare the CO₂This is the world's first solution that enables quantitative evaluation of not only environmental aspects such as human rights, biodiversity, and labor environment, but also social and governance aspects, including human rights, biodiversity, and labor environment, which have become increasingly important in recent years.

List of aiESG evaluation items (excerpt)

Furthermore, analysis by aiESG enables geographical estimation, which is difficult with conventional Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), and visualization of environmental, social, and corporate governance hot spots, tracing back not only to direct suppliers, but also to secondary and upstream business partners.

Dashboard Image Diagram

In addition, since the only data required from the customer is product cost structure data or physical quantity data, ESG supply chain disclosures, which previously required enormous man-hours, are facilitated.

The results of this estimation will be verified by an international academic organization and certification services will be provided. This certification service will enable the company to clearly demonstrate its ESG initiatives to investors and consumers. The certification organization will make an announcement regarding this certification in the near future.
Click here for a demo site where you can see an example of an actual analysis (https://dashboard.aiesg.co.jp/)

We will also hold a PR event on Thursday, May 11, from 11:00 a.m., where interested companies and media can freely attend (click here to register (Japanese only)).https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Qm0WJQFhRPyNtJUL0oIkog).)

In addition, for companies in the apparel industry in particular, we will hold a presentation on the use of our services for sustainable fashion on Tuesday, May 16, from 11:00 a.m. (Click here to register (Japanese only)).https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_kqvBk9XRSByooi3I3DkaDg).

Introduction of Launch Customers and Alliances

We are pleased to introduce the companies that are the launch customers of this ESG analysis service "aiESG" and its alliances.

<Launch Customer
　Infronia Holdings, Inc.
　Nitto Denko Corporation
　Kyushu Electric Power Co.
　Saibu Gas Holdings Co.
　Avanti Corporation
　hap corporation

<Alliance Companies
　Deloitte Tohmatsu Consulting Godo Kaisha
　Sojitz Corporation
　PwC Consulting LLC
　Doogan Inc.
　Sustainable Scale, Inc.

Executive Officer, Sustainability Promotion, Infronia Holdings, Inc.
Comment from Shinya Sakaguchi

Infronia Holdings is taking on the challenge of transforming itself into a "comprehensive infrastructure service company" with a free thinking approach that is not bound by the "build and build" approach of the past. We have recently started ESG analysis by aiESG in order to visualize how our infrastructure operation business is contributing to society. We would like to use aiESG not only as a quantitative evaluation of ESG initiatives that trace back through the supply chain, but also as an indicator that can serve as a hint for new businesses by visualizing 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 evaluation that is distinctly different from conventional ESG evaluations.

Senior Executive Officer, Nitto Denko Corporation
Comment from 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. We place ESG at the center of our management, and have established an internal scheme to visualize the degree of contribution to the global environment and human society made by the products and services we provide, and to certify products and services with particularly high contribution as "PlanetFlags™/HumanFlags™.
We believe that by utilizing 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 Officer, Deloitte Tohmatsu Consulting G.K.
Comment from Hiroyoshi Niwa

Deloitte Tohmatsu Consulting is committed to providing support to companies in the ESG field across the entire strategy and management cycle in order to enhance corporate value, thereby solving corporate issues and providing sustainable value to society. aiESG is the only tool in the world that quantitatively assesses a wide range of ESG items, especially human rights and labor environment, on a product and service basis. aiESG is the only tool in the world that enables quantitative evaluation of a wide range of ESG items, especially human rights and labor environment, on a product and service basis. aiESG provides powerful support for the concrete implementation of ESG strategies aimed at enhancing 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 enhance corporate value and realize a sustainable society through collaboration on further advancement of ESG assessment and development of services.

Sojitz CorporationExecutive Officer　General Manager, Metals, Mineral Resources & Recycling Div.
Comment from Osamu Matsuura

As a sogo shosha (general trading company), we are expanding globally to "provide goods and services from a market-in perspective," and we are under increasing pressure to create a supply chain that takes ESG into consideration.
The world is beginning to pay attention to the complementary nature of climate change and biodiversity, and is moving toward strengthening efforts toward carbon neutrality and nature positivity throughout the supply chain on both fronts. In addition, consideration of human rights is also essential for responsible supply chains.
The world's first service launched by aiESG is considered unique and innovative in that it enables ESG assessment of the entire supply chain on a per-product/service basis, and that it was designed by Mr. Managi, a world-leading researcher in the field of natural capital (President of the company).
We expect that this alliance partnership will provide strong support from the aspect of ESG evaluation for the resource and material supply chain development that we are promoting together with our customers.

About aiESG Corporation (aiESG)

We are a start-up company from Kyushu University that aims to realize a sustainable society through product and service level ESG analysis. Based on years of international and academic ESG research, including UN report representatives, we provide an ESG assessment platform, aiESG, that traces back the entire supply chain.
Click here to visit our corporate website (Japanese only)https://aiesg.co.jp/)

About Us

　Company name: aiESG Co.
　Head Office: NMF Hakata Ekimae Bldg. 2F, 1-15-20 Hakata Ekimae, Hakata-ku, Fukuoka City, Fukuoka
　President and Representative Director : Shunsuke Managi
　Business : ESG analysis business at product/service level
　HP :https://aiesg.co.jp/
　Establishment : July 2022

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　Email address:pr@aiesg.co.jp

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● First column:Background of starting aiESG
● Second meeting column:What services does aiESG provide?