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Toshiba Group is promoting environmental management worldwide as a group. There are four pillars upholding our environmental management: (1) strengthening of the environmental management structure, (2) provision of environmentally conscious products and services, (3) development of environmentally conscious manufacturing, sales and processing, and (4) promotion of environmental communication. We take active measures to promote initiatives focused on these objectives.
In order to promote environmental management, the Corporate Environmental Officer supervises the group as a whole, giving instructions to in-house companies and the presidents of key group companies. The Corporate Environment Management Division formulates specific strategies for environmental management. With a view to promoting and strengthening environmental management not only among environmental divisions, but also throughout all companies, we have organized Toshiba Group's Environmental Management Promotion Organization, which is directly supervised by the Corporate Environmental Officer. This organization, which is composed of divisions that provide direct support for Toshiba Group's businesses and services from environmental perspectives-i.e. the Technology Planning Division (development & engineering design), Corporate Procurement Division (procurement), Corporate Productivity Planning Division (production & logistics), Marketing Planning Division (sales & recovery) and Corporate Environment Management Division-started its activities in 2005. In FY2009, the Corporate Strategic Planning Division (corporate planning) and the Logistics Planning Office (logistics) were added as members of the organization in order to further enhance our environmental management. The Corporate Environment Management Committee was formed as a group-wide decision-making organization regarding environmental management. The Corporate Environmental Officer serves as the chairperson of this committee, which holds meetings twice a year, attended by executive officers, environmental management officers of in-house companies and key group companies, and overseas regional directors. Various issues are examined at these meetings, such as proposals concerning environmental facilities for business management, technological development, production and sales, as well as reviews of voluntary environmental plans aimed at achieving the Environmental Vision, in order to discuss and determine guidelines and plans.
The following committees were organized as subgroups of the Corporate Environmental Management Committee: the Environmentally Conscious Products (ECP) Promotion Committee, which promotes the development of environmentally conscious products and technologies; the Business Division Environmental Protection Committee, which promotes measures to reduce the environmental impact of business activities; and the Environmental Communication Committee, which promotes internal and external communication between our companies. These committees formulate detailed plans, identify potential problems and review measures implemented to solve problems in order to promote the sharing of information among all company members. Various committees specializing in particular themes are engaged in activities in a wide range of areas under the supervision of these committees.
We have established corporate regional headquarters in Europe, the US, China and Asia-Oceania in order to collect and share information on environmental policies and regulations in different regions and to provide cooperation and support for group companies in these regions in developing effective environmental strategies.
Regional environmental management committee meetings are also held twice a year in response to the Corporate Environmental Management meetings. In FY2008, we focused on providing e-learning training and training for local auditors who conduct environmental audits of overseas sites.
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