Tokyo - AGC Inc. (AGC, Headquarters: Tokyo, President: Yoshinori Hirai), a world-leading manufacturer of glass, chemicals and high-tech materials, applied to the Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi) for its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction targets and received certification for 'WB2-degreeC'.

SBTi is an international initiative that promotes, reviews and certifies the setting of science based GHG emission reduction targets for companies in order to achieve the Paris Agreement goal of limiting the increase in global average temperature to less than 2-degreeC above pre-industrial levels.

The AGC Group announced its GHG emissions reduction target by 2030 in its long-term management strategy Vision 2030 formulated in 2021. Furthermore in 2022, the Group announced a 30% reduction (versus 2019) by 2030 as its Scope 3 GHG emissions reduction target in the value chain. These goals were certified as science based goals to limit the global average temperature increase from pre-industrial times to well below 2-degreeC, and were thus certified as 'WB2-degreeC'.

Chikako Ogawa, General Manager, Corporate Communications & Investor Relations Division

Contact:

Fujiyama

Tel: +81-3-3218-5603

(C) 2023 Electronic News Publishing, source ENP Newswire