Environmental Governance/ System of promotion

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 January 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 with the group-wide scheme for achieving the targets. The Environmental Working Committee in June reviews the final results of the previous year 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 steadily implement the targets set under the Green Plan 2010 in a well planned manner 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 sustainable management.