Insurer Sompo Japan Introduces National Green Purchasing System for Agencies

Sompo Japan Insurance Inc., a major non-life insurance company, established a web-based central purchasing system for insurance agencies in cooperation with Japan-Superior Agent (J-SA) and AIR Japan in September 2008. The company established the system to promote green purchasing initiatives and encourage roughly 5,500 agencies to buy only the most necessary and environment-friendly office equipment and supplies, with the overall goal of reducing environmental impacts and establishing a low-carbon, recycling-oriented society.

Participants of this initiative include members of J-SA, which is nationwide body of Sompo Japan's exclusive agencies, and AIR Japan, a countrywide association of auto-repair companies of a certain size that also serve as agencies. This national cooperative green-purchasing initiative for agencies is a first in the Japanese insurance industry.

Participating agents aim to expand on these efforts by serving as a source of information on green purchasing in their local communities and for their corporate and individual customers.

- Sompo Japan Insurance Inc. official website
http://www.sompo-japan.co.jp/english/index.html

Posted: 2009/03/04 06:00:15 AM

TAG Global warming , Non-manufacturing industry , System/Law