Environmental Activities Outline

One of the mid/long-term environmental targets set by the international community is to reduce emissions of CO₂ and other GHGs by 50% from the 2005 level by the year 2050. Panasonic will endeavor to ensure that CO₂ emissions from its entire business operations-not only from its own production activities but also from the use of its products by customers-peak out by 2018. To this end, we have introduced a unique indicator “size of contribution in reducing CO₂ emissions” to accelerate emissions reduction, targeting both our products (for energy saving and energy creation) and production activities. At the same time, we will promote the development of energy-storing devices, expansion of the energy system business through photovoltaic power generation and fuel cells, and services to support energy-saving at factories.

• Initiatives for CO₂ Emissions Reduction
• Products
• Manufacturing
• Lifestyle with virtually zero CO₂ emissions

Having selected resources recycling as an underlying theme along with CO₂ emissions reduction, Panasonic promotes its “recycling-oriented manufacturing” through minimizing the amount of total resources used and maximizing the amount of recycled materials, as well as aiming toward Zero Waste Emissions by reducing our final disposal of waste from production activities. In February 2012, the “Recycling Resources-oriented Product” series, which utilizes resources recovered from used products, was launched under the concept of “product to product.” Further, we will work to reduce the impact of the intake and effluent of water in production activities on water resources and also to conserve water by developing products that help save water.

• Initiatives for Resources Recycling
• Our approaches to Resources Recycling
• Products
• Manufacturing

We adequately understand the impacts of business activities on biodiversity, and collaborate with our stakeholders, from local partners and environmental NGOs to other professionals and issues experts, to achieve our goal of contributing to biodiversity conservation.
As an initiative for biodiversity in business activities, we are proceeding with a biodiversity project under the three key areas of products, land use, and procurement.

• Biodiversity Conservation

Initiatives for sufficient contribution to the environment do not lead to a great innovation solely with Panasonic’s closed activities. The wave of revolution is with brought forth through two-way communication with customers and partner companies. We will work to reduce environmental impacts through cooperation with our suppliers and transportation partners who have close relations with our business activities, as well as promote the Panasonic ECO RELAY for Sustainable Earth, where the goal is for each and every employee around the world to contribute to a sustainable society and the preservation of the global environment as responsible Global Citizens. Initiatives for human resource development are also taken, to develop employees who will serve as facilitators of Panasonic’s environmental sustainability management.
Additionally, in order to globally progress environmental sustainability management, we have set a target localized to the region and are promoting Eco Projects to implement specific actions.

• Collaboration with Stakeholders/Global Citizenship Activities
• Global Eco Projects