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Environmental Action Plan

Last Update: Aug 6, 2009

Environmental Action Plan: Green Plan 2010

‘eco ideas’ for Products

Items Indicators Targets for fiscal 2009 Results in fiscal 2009 Self-assessment and summary Targets for fiscal 2010 Targets for fiscal 2011
Green Products (GP) Number of models accredited as Superior GPs*1 150 296 Achieved both targets by far. In particular, greatly increased the number of models for markets outside Japan 200 250
Number of models with industry-leading energy-efficiency 150 233 200 -

‘eco ideas’ for Manufacturing

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‘eco ideas’ for Everybody, Everywhere

Items Activity targets Results in fiscal 2009 Activities in fiscal 2010
Love the Earth Citizens’ Campaign(LE Campaign)
  • [In Japan] Rate of employees’ households accredited as LE families:At least 80% in fiscal 2011
  • Global promotion of environmental volunteer activities
  • 75% of employees’ households in Japan accredited as LE families
  • Globally implemented Panasonic Eco Relay
 Further promoting LE campaign globally to take firm root
Global Eco Projects Global promotion of eco projects
  • China:Continuously promoted China Eco Project
  • Europe: Announced ‘eco ideas’ Declaration in Europe
  • Expanding targeted areas and strengthening initiatives in China and Europe
  • Focusing on the promotion in Asia Pacific
Social Contribution (Biodiversity protection,etc.) Promotion of partnership with World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) Strengthening the partnership with WWF Formulating Biodiversity Protection Promotion Plan

Environmental Management

Items Activity targets Results in fiscal 2009 Activities in fiscal 2010
Development of promotion system and human resources Enhancement of environmental management systems and environmental IT systems, active development of human resources, etc. Newly established a division in charge of research and analysis of environmental strategies Formulating and implementing measures against key issues
Environmental risk management Measures against contamination by PCBs, VOCs and heavy metals Following the plans, promoting management and treatment of polluted soil and PCB wastes Thoroughly implementing environmental risk management
  • *1 Products with the industry’s No.1 environmental performance in at least 1 of the following items: prevention of global warming, effective utilization of resources and chemical substances management
  • *2 CO2 emissions / weight of products (components) transported
  • *3 Waste generation /(Consolidated sales/Bank of Japan’s corporate goods price index [electricmachinery & equipment])
  • *4 Waste generation / Consolidated sales (Result in fiscal year 2009 based on this calculation was 12% reduction compared to fiscal year 2001)
  • *5 Recycling rate = Amount recycled / (Amount recycled + final disposal amount)(In Japan, the target value is mandatory for each site; outside Japan, the target is set for an average value of all sites.)
  • *6 Water consumption / (Consolidated sales/Bank of Japan’s corporate goods price index [electric machinery & equipment])
  • *7 Water consumption / Consolidated sales (Result in fiscal year 2009 based on this calculation was 20% reduction compared to fiscal year 2001)
  • *8 Rate of factories achieving an internal baseline score of environmental impact reduction in a total number of factories

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