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• Toshiba's Initiatives for Reconstruction and Power Saving

In order to become one of the world's foremost eco-companies, Toshiba Group is approaching environmental management from four perspectives: Greening of Process, Greening of Products, and Greening by Technology, and Green Management.Our Green Management initiatives aim to achieve continuous improvements of our core activities, including the training of next-generation leaders in environmental activities, our environmental management system, environmental communications, and biodiversity conservation. In promoting Green Management, in addition to giving priority to ensuring compliance with laws and regulations, we provide a wide range of environmental education programs for all employees. Along with working to acquire ISO 14001 certification, we monitor, through our own environmental audit system, the progress of environmental management, the development of environmentally conscious products, and the status of environmental activities at each business and production site to improve the level of these initiatives. Furthermore, in order to develop incentives to take on environmental challenges, we have created an environmental award system for organizations, teams, and individuals as well as a performance evaluation system for in-house and key group companies. As part of its environmental communication programs, Toshiba Group communicates information on the environmental aspects of its production activities as well as products and services. It also advances initiatives to encourage considering environmental issues with the general public by promoting collaboration with stakeholders, social contribution activities, and other projects in various countries and regions around the world. In accordance with the Biodiversity Guidelines, Toshiba Group is striving to reduce environmental impacts caused by construction of business and production sites, procurement of resources in business activities and the discharge of industrial waste, etc. We are also pushing forward with initiatives to contribute to the conservation of biodiversity by working with local governments and NPOs to carry out social contribution programs such as the 1.5 Million Tree-Planting Project.

Future initiatives

In the Fifth Environmental Action Plan, we added the three categories outlined below to our activities. First, as part of biodiversity conservation efforts, Toshiba will expand development of ecosystem networks globally, with business and production sites playing a central role in cooperation with local communities; particular emphasis will be placed on the conservation of ecosystems with regional characteristics in mind. Second, as for environmental education and human resource development, Toshiba will promote the development of environmental leaders at each business and production site (Toshiba eco-style leaders) and will further enhance activities at sites with the aim of registering 2,000 leaders globally by FY2015. Third, with regard to environmental communication, through the commitments of the Toshiba Group's approximately 200,000 employees to community-based environmental activities around the world, Toshiba Group is expanding environmental communication to connect people worldwide.