Environmental Activities - Basic Policy

In 2001, we launched our "Green Plan 2010 (GP2010)," an environmental action plan with targets as far as fiscal 2011. In fiscal 2006, as the plan reached its middle year, we comprehensively reviewed our direction and target levels. We recognized several points requiring improvement: (1) Our stance regarding each particular item was unclear; (2) the plan lacked environmental risk items; and (3) there was a gulf between the targets and actual results in the Clean Factory area. In the new version of GP2010, we categorized our core targets into three groups; those issues that we deem to be most important in terms of environmental management as classified as "Basic Targets"; issues that should be tackled individually within their field are classified as "Area Targets"; and those issues that require management reorganization are "Management Targets." We have also defined individual environmental indicators as "Environment Performance Targets" which support the achievement of the core targets in the above-mentioned three categories.

Basic Targets/Area Targets/Management Targets/Environmental Performance Targets

Basic Targets

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

*1	Total of some 90 products and systems used throughout one household

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/distribution	•Promote more environmentally-consious 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.

Environmental Performance Targets

Items			Targets for fiscal 2011
Preventing global warming	Products		Estimation of CO2 emissions from product use
	Factories		10% reduction of CO2 emissions per basic unit
	Distribution		4% reduction of CO2 emissions per basic unit (relative to fiscal 2007)
	Offices		1% reduction of CO2 emissions per basic unit (relative to previous year)(under discussion)
Reducing chemical substances	Factories		10% reduction in release and transfer of key target reduction substances (relative to fiscal 2006)
Sustaining resources	Factories	Waste	20% reduction per basic unit of waste generation
Sustaining resources	Factories	Water resources	10% reduction per basic unit of water consumption

*2	CO2 emissions(consolidated salesBank of Japan's corporate goods price index for electric appliances)
*3	Amount of waste generation(consolidated salesBank of Japan's corporate goods price index (electrical equipment)
*4	Amount of water consumption(consolidated salesBank of Japan's corporate goods price index for electric appliances)

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Indicator Definition and Accreditation Criteria in Basic Target

Criteria for Green Products Development Rate and Clean Factories Accreditation Rate

Indicator	Definition	Accreditation Criteria for fiscal 2011
Green Products Development Rate	Sales of GP developed products for current fiscal year/Total sales of all developed products for current fiscal year (see "GP Accreditation")	Each product	Improvement rate of GHG efficiency by 2.0 times

			Improvement rate of resource efficiency rate by 1.7 times
Clean Factories Accreditation Rate	Each factory is accredited with points for its environmental impact reduction achievements such as reduction of CO2 emissions and waste. The ratio of factories surpassing the required base point is then calculated.	Each factory	Energy conservation rates: Product-assembly segment: 3.5% Components and devices segment: 7%
			10% reduction in release and transfer of key target reduction substances (relative to fiscal 2006)
			2% reduction in waste generation
			2.5% reduction in water consumption

*5	(Product lifeproduct function)GHG emissions over the life cycle
*6	(Product lifeproduct function)(Amount of resources newly extracted from the earth + amount of disposed resources)
*7	Amount of energy conserved by current fiscal year measures (converted to CO2)amount of energy consumed during previous fiscal year (converted to CO2)
*8	Amount of total waste arisings reduced by current fiscal year measures (including revenue-generating waste)total waste arisings amount during previous fiscal year (including revenue-generating waste)
*9	Amount of water consumption reduced by current fiscal year measures/amount of water consumed during previous fiscal year

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