Mid-term Environmental Strategy

The Fourth Voluntary Plan for Environmental Protection, which we have promoted since fiscal 2005, was reviewed in fiscal 2009 to set it as a global goal for both production sites in and outside Japan.

Mid-term Environmental Strategy

All goals for product-related items were achieved in fiscal 2009. As for the business process, the goals for CO2 emissions in Japan, water consumption and final disposal rate were not achieved. The decrease in production larger than expectations disallowed the goals for CO2 emissions in Japan and water consumption.

The amount of waste for final disposal was reduced, however, the final disposal rate was not achieved by a slight amount, even though the total amount of waste discharged was drastically reduced.

New production sites are scheduled for launch by 2012. These new production sites will become engaged mainly in part processing, thus will consume more energy, compared to the existing assembly sites.

Therefore, as goals for and after fiscal 2010, values will be increased compared to the results in fiscal 2009.

We will continue efforts to restrain emissions of CO2, waste and chemical substances to the fullest extent through improvements in management and deliberate business investment.

Note:
"YES" indicates the goal for 2009 has been achieved and "NO" indicates the goal for 2009 has not been achieved.

For goals using ratios, a quantity-based net output rate is used as an indicator for evaluating activities.

Net Output = [Nominal Output in Japan] / [Corporate goods price index (electrical equipment) announced by the Bank of Japan for each year (the index for 1990 is 1)] + [Nominal Output outside Japan]

As a CO2 conversion factor for electricity in Japan, 3.17 t-CO2 /10 thousand kWh of electricity generated is adopted for fiscal 1990 and 2.97 t-CO2 /10 thousand kWh for fiscal 2009.

As a CO2 conversion factor for electricity in Japan, 4.17 t-CO2 /10 thousand kWh of electricity received is calculated for fiscal 1990 and 3.4 t-CO2 /10 thousand kWh for fiscal 2010 and 2012. The amount of electricity-received specific to the relevant countries is adopted as the CO2 conversion factors for electricity outside Japan.

To achieve the final disposal goal of 0.5% for fiscal 2012, development of infrastructure including recycling routes and incineration facilities is required in relevant countries and regions outside Japan.