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Japan's Asahi to cut carbon dioxide emissions

TOKYO - As part of its effort to become more environmentally friendly, Asahi Breweries Ltd aims to reduce the carbon dioxide emitted in brewing regular and low-malt beer in 2008 through 2012 to half the 1990 level.

Last year, the brewer achieved its goal of reducing its carbon-dioxide emissions to 184 kilograms per kiloliter of beer brewed, down 22 percent from the 1990 level, two years ahead of its original schedule.

It has now set a new carbon-dioxide emissions target that is the most aggressive among those of Japan's four major brewers. It has also drawn up a beer-production goal of 2.78 million kiloliters at the time of achieving its new emissions target, up 72 percent from the 1990 level.

To meet its targets, Asahi has launched projects to reduce the fuel and electricity as well as the water used in brewing beer. It will designate two production sites as model plants where use of such resources will be reduced to a targeted amount and transfer the methods used in achieving the goals to other sites.

The company also aims to cut total carbon-dioxide emissions by 14 percent, eight points more than the reduction target set for Japan by the Kyoto Protocol.

(Asia Pulse/Nikkei)

Aug 13, 2003

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