Environmental Accounting

Last Update: Aug 8, 2012

For environmental sustainability management

Panasonic globally collects data on its environmental conservation costs and economic benefits obtained through its environmental activities in relation to generated/controlled environmental impact. This data is internally utilized as basic information for our continuing environmental sustainability management.

Environmental accounting for fiscal 2012

(million yen)

Classification by the Ministry of the Environment of Japan	Investments^*1	Expenses^12	Economic benefit
R&D	5,779	24,917	-
Global environmental conservation	5,652	1,661	4,835
Pollution prevention	1,882	4,290	-
Resources recycling	667	8,144	26,730
Upstream and downstream	696	3,136	2,596
Administration	86	5,339	-
Environmental remediation	176	801	-
Social activity	0	61	-
Total	14,938	48,348	34,161

*1 Where an entire amount of investment and expenses cannot be regarded as environmental conservation costs alone, the difference or appropriate portions (divided proportionally) are calculated.
*2 Expenses include a cost of capital investment depreciation.

Environmental conservation benefits for fiscal 2012 (in physical terms)

Categories	Emission reduction	Reference indicator: environmental impact
Categories	Emission reduction	Fiscal 2011	Fiscal 2012
CO₂ emissions from the use of our products	6 million tons	91 million tons	85 million tons
CO₂ emissions from production activities	0.44 million tons	4 million tons	3.56 million tons
GHG emissions (other than CO₂)	0.02 million tons	0.14 million tons	0.12 million tons
Human Environmental Impact^*3	53,000 counts	1,008,000 counts	955,000 counts
Final disposal of waste	8,100 tons	13,100 tons	5,000 tons
Water consumption	7 million m³	60 million m³	53 million m³
CO₂ emissions from transportation activities^*4	−0.19 million tons^*5	0.87 million tons	1.06 million tons

*3 Overseas sites of former SANYO Electric not included. Difinition of the Human Environmental Impact.
*4 Former SANYO Electric is not included in the intra-region outside of Japan and international transportation.
*5 The area and products surveyed in international transportation have been expanded since fiscal 2012.

Economic effects for customers for fiscal 2012

Electricity cost reduction from product usage (global)
Reduced amount of electricity^*6	70 billion kWh
Reduced electricity costs^*7	980 billion yen

*6 Calculated under the same conditions as when determining the size of contribution in reducing CO₂ emissions through energy-saving products.
*7 Electricity costs were set for each region based on IEA Statistics.

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