Sydney, Australia, 17th February 2026: Konica Minolta has received the Bronze Award (Selection Committee Chairperson’s Award) in the Environmentally Sustainable Company Category at the 7th ESG Finance Awards Japan, hosted by Japan’s Ministry of the Environment.
The award recognises organisations that embed environmental risks and opportunities into their management strategies, strengthen longterm corporate value, and deliver positive environmental outcomes. Konica Minolta was acknowledged for its proactive climate targets, strong focus on circular economy principles and biodiversity conservation, and its ability to link environmental initiatives with economic value.
Why this matters for Australian customers
For Australian organisations under growing pressure to decarbonise, reduce resource use and meet ESG reporting expectations, this recognition reinforces Konica Minolta’s position as a trusted, longterm partner in sustainability.
The award specifically acknowledged Konica Minolta’s approach to supporting customers to reduce CO₂ emissions and resource consumption, while simultaneously creating economic value. This aligns closely with how Konica Minolta works with Australian customers across workplaces, production environments and digital operations to improve efficiency, reduce waste and lower environmental impact without compromising performance.
As sustainability regulations and investor scrutiny increase in Australia, customers benefit from working with a partner whose environmental strategy is independently recognised and embedded at a global level, not treated as a standalone initiative.
Recognition of robust environmental strategy
The ESG Finance Awards judging office highlighted Konica Minolta’s high level of ambition in addressing climate change, building a recyclingoriented society and protecting biodiversity. The judges also noted the company’s advanced disclosure aligned to the Taskforce on Naturerelated Financial Disclosures (TNFD), including the use of scenario analysis to identify risks and opportunities across its businesses and a systematic response framework based on AR3T (Avoid, Reduce, Restore and Regenerate, and Transform).
This level of rigour provides confidence to Australian customers that Konica Minolta’s environmental commitments are supported by data, governance and longterm planning, rather than shortterm targets.
Driving carbon reduction beyond Konica Minolta’s own operations
As part of its sustainability strategy, Konica Minolta has identified key social and environmental issues expected by 2030 and set material priorities, including responding to climate change and using finite resources more effectively.
A core focus is reducing CO₂ emissions beyond the company’s own operations. Konica Minolta is working towards achieving a state where the emissions reductions enabled for customers and society exceed the company’s total Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions, defined internally as becoming carbon negative. Through its technologies and solutions, Konica Minolta expects to achieve this outcome in FY2025, while continuing to grow its business.
For Australian customers, this means access to solutions that not only support their own emissions reduction goals, but also contribute to broader decarbonisation across supply chains and industries.
Longterm commitment to net zero
Looking ahead, Konica Minolta has set a target to achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions across its entire value chain (Scopes 1, 2 and 3) by 2050.
This longterm commitment provides Australian organisations with confidence that Konica Minolta’s sustainability roadmap is aligned with global climate goals and future regulatory expectations, supporting customers as they plan their own transition pathways.
About Konica Minolta Australia
Konica Minolta Business Solutions Australia Pty Ltd is a market-leading provider of trusted technology solutions to help Australian organisations keep pace with the needs of the future workplace through innovation and investment technology solutions that leverage the technology of tomorrow, today.
From printing, scanning, and copying to cloud storage and managed IT services, Konica Minolta Australia’s award-winning products and solutions help customers to transform and move information faster.
Creating and working with equitable, socially responsible, and environmentally conscious organisations is an important part of the future workplace. Konica Minolta Australia actively promotes and innovates through diversity and inclusion, ethical supply chain, and climate change action strategies.
Konica Minolta Australia is proud to support the commitment to reconciliation between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and all other people in the community to help improve life outcomes and opportunities and to create a better future for society at large. As part of this, Konica Minolta Australia developed its Reconciliation Action Plan to publicly commit to reconciliation initiatives, and is a member of Supply Nation, the Australian leader in supplier diversity, to support First Nations businesses.
For more information visit: konicaminolta.com.au
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