Environmental Action Plan

Green Plan 2010 is an action plan that defines the specific targets and activities that Panasonic will pursue for environmental sustainability management towards 2010. Since the formulation of the Plan in 2001, we have been reviewing its targets annually to make them even more challenging.

Since we were able to achieve some of the major target items in fiscal 2008 earlier than planned, in fiscal 2009, we will set out new challenging targets while reorganizing our ‘basic targets,’ ‘area targets,’‘management targets,’ and ‘environmental performance targets’ into ‘eco ideas’ for Products, ‘eco ideas’ for Manufacturing, ‘eco ideas’ for Everybody, Everywhere, and the environmental management fields that support these ‘eco ideas.’ In this way we will further accelerate our environmental sustainability management.

We have been implementing measures to improve the quality of our customers’ lives while helping them decrease their environmental impact under the concept of ‘Creating Value for a New Lifestyle,’ And we set the GHG Factor for One Household as an indicator to evaluate these measures. In fiscal 2008, we achieved the target of 5 for the Factor, originally set for fiscal 2011, three years ahead of the schedule. We will not set a new target for the Factor, but will continue to implement environmental impact reduction measures for one entire household and disclose information about the Factor and relevant indicators.

We have set the criteria to accredit GPs from the viewpoint of the prevention of global warming, effective utilization of resources, and chemical substances management. We defined the percentage that GPs account for in the value of shipment from our factories as the GP Development Rate and set a target of increasing the rate to at least 90% in fiscal 2011. We were able to achieve 99% in the rate in fiscal 2008, thereby achievingthe target much earlier than planned. In the future, while complying with the GP accreditation criteria, we will set a new target for the number of models accredited as Superior GPs, which indicate products with industry's best environmental performance.

As for per basic unit CO₂ emissions from our factories, which represent a particularly important target for the prevention of global warming, we achieved reduction by 33%, far exceeding the target of 7%. We were thus able to achieve the target for fiscal 2011 three years early. Hence, we set a new target for the total CO₂ emissions from factories aiming for the acceleration of global warming prevention, while continue to disclose information about per basic unit CO₂ emissions.