Environmental Vision and Action Plan

• Fiscal 2007 summary of activities
• Green Plan 2010 targets and actual results in fiscal 2007

Creating value for a new lifestyle

Pursuing our concept of 'Creating Value for a New Lifestyle' means providing customers with products with less environmental impact that still contribute to the improvement of their quality of life. To this end, we developed our own unique indicator, "Factor X" to evaluate the environmental efficiency of our products. We aim to improve the GHG Factor for One Household to a factor of 5 in fiscal 2011.

Green Products (GPs)

We set the environmental performance criteria for Green Products in terms of the prevention of global warming, the effective utilization of resources, and the management of chemical substances, and we accredit products and services that have demonstrated improved environmental performance against the criteria as GPs. We aim to increase the GP Development Rate (percentage of GPs in the value of total shipments from factories of products developed in the fiscal year) to at least 90% by fiscal 2011, while making the Green Product criteria stricter, year by year.

Clean Factories (CFs)

We introduced the CF Accreditation System in fiscal 2006, and have been evaluating and accrediting the environmental impact reduction measures implemented by our factories under the system. We aim to improve the CF Accreditation Rate (percentage of CF-accredited factories in the total number of our factories) to at least 90% by fiscal 2011.

Basic targets (global targets based on fiscal 2001 levels)

Items	Indicators		Targets for fiscal 2007	Results in fiscal 2007	Self-assessment
Creating value for a new lifestyle	Factor for One Household*1	GHG Factor*2 (compared with fiscal 1991)	2.8	2.8
		Resource Factor*3 (compared with fiscal 1991)	1.9	1.6
Green Products	Green Product Development Rate*4		At least 74%	96%
Clean Factories	Clean Factory Accreditation Rate*5		At least 58%	78%

• *1 Total of some 90 products and systems used throughout the household
• *2 GHG efficiency improvement rate
• *3 Resource efficiency improvement rate
• *4 Percentage of GPs in the value of total shipments from factories of products developed in the fiscal year
• *5 Percentage of factories achieving environmental impact reduction exceeding the baseline score in the total number of factories

Area targets

Items	Results in fiscal 2007
Product recycling	(in Japan) Recycling rates of four categories of home appliances increased by 14 points compared with fiscal 2002
Environment/energy busines	(in Japan) Approximately 200 household fuel cell cogeneration systems in operation
Green marketing and logistics	Logistics: (in Japan) Rail freight delivery: 16,106 containers CO2 emissions reduction :7,626 tons Marketing: Trees planted and consumer education campaigns held under N’s Eco Project

Management targets

Items	Results in fiscal 2007
Environmental communication	Love the Earth (LE) families increased to 58% (Japan) Dialogues with stakeholders held 3 times.
Environmental sustainability management and human resources	Meeting of the Global Environmental Management Committee held Environmental education system redesigned
Measures against environmental risks	Total of 131 among 2,132 PCB-filled transformers and condensers weighing 10 kg or heavier, decontaminated

Environmental performance targets (global targets based on fiscal 2001 levels)

Items			Targets for fiscal 2007	Results in fiscal 2007	Self-assessment
Prevention of global warming	Products		Estimation of CO2 emissions from products in use (target for fiscal 2011)
	Factories		6% reduction in CO2 emissions per basic unit*1	Reduced by 24%
	Logistics		(Baseline year)		-
Reduction in release and transfer of chemical substances	Factories		2% reduction in release and transfer of Key Reduction-target Substances (relative to fiscal 2006)	Increased by 0.9%
Recycling of resources	Factories	Waste	12% reduction in waste generation per basic unit*2	Reduced by 33%
		Water	6% reduction in water consumption per basic unit*3	Reduced by 38%

• *1 CO2 emissions(Consolidated salesBank of Japan’s corporate goods price index [electric machinery & equipment])
• *2 Waste generation(Consolidated salesBank of Japan’s corporate good price index [electric machinery & equipment])
• *3 Water consumption(Consolidated salesBank of Japan’s corporate good price index [electric machinery & equipment])
• Self-assessment level: = target achieved = achieved 80% or more = achieved less than 80%

[Related Data File]

• Environmental Vision
• Promoting environmental sustainability management through Green Plan 2010