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Responding to biodiversity conservation
(responding to the TNFD)
Recognizing the benefit from the ecosystem in the performance of the Group's business activities, we promote initiatives considering the maintenance of ecosystems and preservation of biodiversity and natural resources.
Activities related to our relationship with nature
The conservation of biodiversity is a global issue along with climate change.
The Japan Post Group has set "environment" as one of its major sustainability issues, recognizes that its business activities can only be conducted based on the benefits of ecosystems, and is promoting management that considers our relationship with nature, including the conservation of biodiversity.
Specifically, as a company that uses forest resources for New Year's postcards, Japan Post formulated the "Guidelines on Procurement of Paper Products" in 2023. We have established procurement requirements for paper products, including postcards, from the perspectives of the impact on nature such as forests and respect for human rights.
In addition, Japan Post has launched the Business Efficiency and Paperless Project, and is reducing paper materials and promoting the use of electronic files as an effort to achieve resource conservation through business efficiency. As a result, in the six months from October 2023 to March 2024, we reduced the amount of printer paper used by 45% (roughly 800,000 sheets of A4 printer paper) compared to the same period in the previous fiscal year. Japan Post is developing a similar initiative.
Efforts to disclose information based on the TNFD
The Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) developed an information disclosure framework for companies with the aim of directing global funds toward the restoration of nature, and published it as a set of final recommendations in September 2023.
Japan Post Bank and Japan Post Insurance participate in the TNFD Forum.
In addition, Japan Post Holdings and Japan Post have also started analyzing and evaluating the dependence and impact of their main business activities on nature since the fiscal year ending March 31, 2025 using the LEAP approach in line with the TNFD recommendations. Going forward, the Japan Post Group will work to enhance the disclosure of nature-related information.
Specific Initiatives
FSC certification postcards

Japan Post uses FSC® certified paper for its New Year's postcards and regular postcards. The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) is an international certification organization that aims to make appropriate forest management ubiquitous. FSC® certification is an international certification system for identifying properly managed forests and products made from forestry products produced in these forests, recycled resources and raw materials from other managed supply sources. FSC certification requires appropriate forest management in all processes from production and processing to distribution based on diverse perspectives, such as the securing of the rights and safety of workers, the construction of good relationships with local communities, the conservation of the rich natural environment and the control of the adverse impact of human activity. Using FSC certified paper enables you to help the world preserve its forests and biodiversity and sustainably use its forest resources.
※In fiscal 2023, all postcards were manufactured using FSC® certified paper.
- About FSC certification (FSC Japan)(Japanese)
Corporate partnership with WWF Japan
To work together to realize a sustainable future that allows humans to live in harmony with nature, Japan Post concluded a corporate partnership with WWF Japan in December 2022. Based on it, we will provide support to the forest conservation projects of WWF Japan to preserve forests while maintaining and developing the culture of letter-writing.
ESG investment
Japan Post Bank and Japan Post Insurance promote the investments and loans that contribute to solutions to environmental issues such as climate change and biodiversity preservation based on ESG Investment and Financing Policy.
- ESG Investment and Financing -Japan Post Bank
- ESG investment -Japan Post Insurance
Tohoku Regeneration Green Wave

The JP Children's Tree Planting Campaign "The Tohoku Regeneration Green Wave" business is a project certified and recommended by the Japan Committee for the United Nations Decade on Biodiversity (UNDB-J). In the project, the kindergarten children in the areas affected by the Great East Japan Earthquake picked up acorns, the acorns are grown by the children of nurseries, kindergartens, and childcare centers around Japan, the three-year-old seedlings are sent back to the affected areas via the network of Japan Post, and the kindergarten children in the affected areas plant the seedlings on May 22 or the day of Green Wave while wishing restoration of greenery in Tohoku.
Through the activity, we provide children with the opportunity to learn about the preservation of biodiversity and contribute to the restoration of greenery in the affected areas.
In April 2020, we won the Outstanding Activity Award at the 2019 (15th) Association for Children's Environment Awards as a result of a review by Association for Children's Environment.
Participation in the forest fund
Japan Post participated in Eastwood Climate Smart Forestry Fund I, the forest fund set up by Eastwood Forests, LLC affiliated with Sumitomo Forestry Co., Ltd., in July 2023. The fund aims to operate forests for traditional lumber production and also carry out sustainable forest operations contributing to climate change countermeasures in the U.S.A., where there are more advanced carbon credit markets and systems. In addition, by managing forests appropriately in accordance with the forest certification systems of the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) and others, we will provide an environment habitable for diverse creatures to increase biodiversity.
Moreover, Japan Post is discussing specific initiatives to develop industries related to forests in Japan and other countries and realize carbon neutrality.