Area Covered: Global
Scope: Procurement and Production: 285 manufacturing sites
Logistics: Logistics stage of procurement, production, marketing and waste by partner companies and Panasonic
Product use: Lifetime CO₂ emissions associated with lifetime power consumption of covered products. Lifetime power consumption estimated based on the number of products sold, rated lifetime, and usage time (Length of years in which Panasonic defines replacement parts are available). Following CO₂ emission coefficients of purchased electricity (unit: kg-CO₂/kWh) for each region used; 0.39 (Japan); 0.518 (Europe); 0.579 (North America); 074 (China); 0.581 (North East Asia); 0.532 (Asia Pacific); and 0.581 (other regions).
Recycling: Weight of recycled products is a weight of components and materials that can be either sold or provided free of charge to other companies
Input: An amount of purchased electricity from power utilities, a volume of heavy oil and kerosene, and a volume of water, industrial water and underground water
Output: CO₂ emissions associated with the use of electricity, gas, LPG and petroleum, NOx and SOx emissions from business sites governed by legal regulations and ordinances, and water discharge to sewage and public water districts.

• *1 30 major products with large amounts of energy and resource use
• *2 Air-conditioners, TVs, refrigerators, washing machines and PCs
• *3 Covering Japan only

Definitions of the 30 major products

New fiscal 2009 models of:
Plasma TVs, LCD TVs, CRT TVs, DVD recorders, SD stereo systems, fax machines, refrigerators, air conditioners, microwave ovens, IH cooking heaters, washer/dryers, fully-automatic washing machines, laundry dryers, rice cookers, dish washer/dryers, natural coolant (CO₂) heat pump water heaters, electric thermos pots, electric carpets, vacuum cleaners, heated toilet seats with warm water sprays, electric irons, dehumidifiers, humidifiers, ventilators, air purifiers, bathroom ventilators & dryers, range hoods, home-use fluorescent lamps/ silica bulbs (silica bulbsare newly added in fiscal 2009), home-use lighting equipment (evaluated resources only because an amount of power consumption is included in fluorescent lamps ), and hair dryers.