Environmental Vision and Action Plan

Promoting environmental sustainability management through Green Plan 2010

Basic Targets, Area Targets, Management Targets
Environmental Performance Targets
Definitions of and criteria for the Green Product Development Rate and Clean Factory Accreditation Rate

Green Plan 2010 is a specific environmental action plan that provides the direction for Panasonic to follow towards 2010. In this plan, we categorized our core targets into the following three groups: basic targets, to which we must give first priority in our environmental sustainability management; area targets, which should be tackled individually within their field; and management targets that require improvements in their management methods. We have also defined individual environmental performance indicators as environment performance targets, which support the above three target types. We regard these targets as highly important, and their use as the basis for monitoring our environmental performance has become a fundamental business requirement in our drive to reduce our environmental impact.

Basic Targets, Area Targets, Management Targets

Basic Targets

Items	Indicators		Targets for fiscal 2011
Value for a New Lifestyle	Factor X for One Household ^*1	GHG Factor ^*2(relative to fiscal 1991)	5
Value for a New Lifestyle	Factor X for One Household ^*1	Resource Factor ^*3(relative to fiscal 1991)	3
Green Products	Green Product Development Rate		At least 90%
Clean Factories	Clean Factory Accreditation Rate		At least 90%

*1 Total of some 90 products and systems used throughout the household
*2 GHG efficiency improvement rate
*3 Resource efficiency improvement rate

Area Targets

Items	Targets for fiscal 2011
Product recycling	Establish recycling systems for all home appliance categories
Environment/energy business	Promote widespread use of household fuel cells, etc.
Green marketing/logistics	Promote more environmentally-conscious transportation methods: increase rail freight to 30,000 containers (in Japan)

Management Targets

Items	Targets for fiscal 2011
Environmental communication	Increase "Love the Earth" families: to at least 80% of all employee households in Japan, etc.
Environmental sustainability management and human resources	Promote visualization of environmental sustainability management, etc.
Environmental risk management	Remedy soil contaminated with PCB, VOCs and heavy metals, etc.

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Environmental Performance Targets

Items			Targets for fiscal 2008	Targets for fiscal 2011
Prevention of global warming	Products		Estimation of CO₂ emissions from products in use
	Factories		7% reduction in CO₂ emissions per basic unit:^*1	10% reduction in CO₂ emissions per basic unit
	Logistics		(in Japan) 4% reduction in CO₂ emissions per basic unit (relative to fiscal 2007)
Reduction in release and transfer of chemical substances	Products		Discontinuance of the use of polyvinyl chloride resins for internal wiring in new products (by fiscal 2009 in Japan and by fiscal 2011 globally)
Reduction in release and transfer of chemical substances	Factories		4% reduction in release and transfer of Key Reduction-target Substances: (relative to fiscal 2006)	10% reduction in release and transfer of key reduction-target substances: (relative to fiscal 2006)
Recycling of resources Factories	Factories	Waste	14% reduction per basic unit of waste generation^*2	20% reduction per basic unit of waste generation
Recycling of resources Factories	Factories	Water	7% reduction per basic unit of water consumption^*3	10% reduction per basic unit of water consumption

*1 CO₂ emissions(Consolidated salesBank of Japan’s corporate goods price index [electric machinery & equipment])
*2 Waste generation(Consolidated salesBank of Japan’s corporate good price index [electric machinery & equipment])
*3 Water consumption(Consolidated salesBank of Japan’s corporate good price index [electric machinery & equipment])

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Definitions of and criteria for the Green Product Development Rate and Clean Factory Accreditation Rate

Indicator	Definition	Criteria for fiscal 2008		Criteria for fiscal 2011
Green Product Development Rate	Percentage of GPs in the value of total shipments from factories of products developed in the fiscal year (See "GP accreditation criteria.")	Each product	GHG factor: 1.58	GHG factor: 2.0
			Substitution of polyvinyl chloride resins
			Resource factor: 1.58	Resource factor: 1.7
Clean Factory Accreditation Rate	Percentage of factories achieving the environmental impact reduction targets for CO₂ emissions and waste and exceeding the baseline score in the total number of factories (See "the CF Accreditation System.")	Each factory	Energy conservation rates^*1 Product assembly segment: 3.5% (5% in China); Components and devices segment: 7%	Targets achieved in both the segments with 3.5% (5% in China) and 7%, respectively
			2% reduction in release and transfer of Key Reduction-target Substances (relative to fiscal 2006)	10% reduction in release and transfer of Key Reduction-target Substances (relative to fiscal 2006)
			2% reduction in waste generation^*2	2% reduction in waste generation
			2.5% reduction in water consumption^*3	2.5% reduction in water consumption

*1 Energy conservation achieved by the fiscal year measures (converted to CO₂)Energy consumption in the previous fiscal year (converted to CO₂)
*2 Waste reduction achieved by the fiscal year measuresWaste generation in the previous fiscal year
*3 Water consumption in the fiscal yearWater consumption in the previous fiscal year

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