Initiatives at Offices

Along with acceleration of CO₂ emission reduction initiatives at its manufacturing sites, Panasonic began strengthening CO₂ emission reduction measures at its non-manufacturing sites in fiscal 2009. Specifically, we set a total CO₂ emission reduction target for self-owned office buildings in Japan, and formulated a three-year CO₂ reduction plan for our 15 major non-manufacturing sites. We are implementing measures to visualize waste energy at offices, including energy couservation tuning^* and diagnoses of office buildings. As a result, we reduced CO₂ emissions from our non-manufacturing sites in Japan by about 5% from fiscal 2008 levels and achieved our target of an average 2% reduction per year.

• * A measure to adjust the settings of air conditioners, lighting equipment, and other devices and systems according to changes in the usage of office buildings, thereby reducing energy consumption.

• * Scope of the data: Non-manufacturing sites with 100 or more employees CO₂ emission coefficient for electricity purchased: 0.410 kg CO₂ /kWh

Panasonic has been promoting Green IT initiatives to reduce its environmental impact through the use of IT technologies.

As for Green of IT, which aims to improve the energysaving performance and operation of IT devices, we are encouraging employees to switch off their PCs and reduce an amount of power consumption by their IT devices in a standby mode. As for Green by IT to promote energy conservation in society at large through the use of IT, we will reduce CO₂ emissions through increasing a use of the web conference systems in which employees can participate without actually attending in person in addition to the e-work system, which enables employees to work at home or in their business trips. In a Green Data Center initiative, we strive to reduce CO₂ emissions by consolidating our servers.

• * Actual bulk purchases by the Company