Creating Value for a New Lifestyle

• Environmental efficiency
• Philosophy on Creating Value for a New Lifestyle

Based on the concept of environmental efficiency proposed at the 1992 Earth Summit, we are pursuing our concept of Creation of Value for a New Lifestyle, which means providing customers with products that bring better quality of life with less environmental impact in terms of greenhouse gas emissions, resource consumption, and contamination risks caused by chemical substances. The environmental efficiency improvement rate for each fiscal year (against the baseline year) is generally calculated as "Factor X^*1," and we have developed our own unique Factors for both individual devices and for one household: the GHG Factor and the Resource Factor.
   In November 2006, five home appliance producers, including Panasonic, established standard guidelines on how to highlight their products’ environmental performance to customers, especially when replacing old products. Alongside other matters, the guidelines explain the Factor X calculation for four product groups^*2.

• *1 Factor X = (Environmental efficiency of the product to be evaluated) (the environmental efficiency of a benchmark product)
• *2 Air conditioners, refrigerators, lamps, and lighting equipment

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• Factors for One Household

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