Management and Human Resources - Environmental Governance

• PDCA cycle of environmental sustainability management
• In-house documents regarding environmental sustainability management

Based on the corporate management policy published each January, and the Green Plan 2010, the Corporate Environmental Affairs Division develops Panasonic's annual environmental activity policies and priority plans. The Environmental Working Committee is then convened in February to communicate these plans to employees. Business domain companies, in turn, develop GP development plans and Three-Year CF plans that incorporate the policies and plans, and promote environmental sustainability management accordingly.
   The Corporate Environmental Affairs Division coordinates business domain company plans and places them within the group-wide scheme for achieving our Green Plan 2010. The Environmental Working Committee reviews the final results of the previous year in June and redefines priority activities for the current year, as necessary, prior to the publication of the Panasonic Report for Sustainability and the Environmental Data Book. We also invite experts in environmental management from outside the Company to provide proposals to steadily improve our environmental sustainability management. In October, the Global Environmental Working Committee meets, where representatives of regional environmental divisions throughout the world gather to check the progress of plans for the first half of the year and begin discussing next year's environmental policies and priority plans. The committee is used as an opportunity to share the successful activities of each region and business domain company to boost the global level of environmental activities.
   We believe that it is important to set integrated targets under the Green Plan 2010, to steadily implement the plan in accordance with carefully drafted GP development plans and Three-Year CF plans, and to ensure that the Environmental Working Committee, which meets three times each year, plays a central role in the rigorous implementation of PDCA cycles for environmental sustainability management.

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• Environmental sustainability management promotion system
• Developing environment specialists and defining their responsibilities
• Environmental management systems
• Business performance evaluation based on Green Plan 2010

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• Management Philosophy
• Code of Conduct