Management and Human Resources - Environmental Governance

• Environmental sustainability management promotion system (fiscal 2008)

It is the responsibility of the Corporate Environmental Affairs Division to develop environmental strategies based on the policies adopted at our Management Conferences and by the Environmental Working Committee, to support group-wide environmental programs, and to ensure that individual business domain companies implement them. To address specific problems through group-wide action, the Division also establishes various environmental committees, subcommittees, and working groups (with members comprising of environmental staff from the major business domain companies). In fiscal 2007, the Factor 5 Project Committee was established as a short-term advisory body to the Environmental Working Committee.
   To further promote initiatives in specific strategic areas, the division established three additional committees: (1) The Chemical Substances in Products Management Committee, to continue activities of the Specified Chemical Substance Project launched upon the enforcement of the RoHS Directive in the EU; (2) the Green Logistics Promotion Committee, to accelerate initiatives in logistics in response to the revised Japanese Energy Conservation Law; and (3) the Environmental Indicator Promotion Committee, to reinforce effort in environmental information disclosure.
   In response to specific environmental regulations in particular countries, we have also established Regional Environmental Conferences, where discussions are held on problems unique to respective regions.

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• Steadily promoting environmental management through consistent MBO
• Developing environment specialists and defining their responsibilities
• Environmental management systems
• Business performance evaluation based on Green Plan 2010