Environmental Governance

Panasonic defines “corporate activities aiming for realizing a sustainable society in which environmental conservation goes with economic development” as environmental sustainability management, and promote activities to put our Environmental Statement into practice.

As a PDCA cycle at a corporate level, an annual environmental action plan is formulated based on a corporate management policy and the Green Plan 2010. Subsequently, the Environmental Working Committee is held to group-widely communicate detailed plans set in the action plan to employees. To review the progress and results of each operational site, major environmental performance data is collected monthly and additional measures are introduced if necessary. Aiming to steadily improve our environmental sustainability management, we disclose annual environmental performance data after the review by the third party and incorporate comments and remarks from stakeholders. Since an amount of CO₂ emission was added to key management indicators, such as sales and operating profits in fiscal 2009, it is linked to business performance evaluation of business domain companies.

Business domain companies and affiliated business units incorporate items of environmental management into their annual business plans and promote initiatives based on environmental management systems. Furthermore, as a voluntary initiative, we conduct performance evaluation of environmental management to measure achievement made against targets, which is utilized as part of business performance evaluation of divisions affiliated with business domain companies.

We establish the Environmental Working Committee, in which a corporate environmental division requests domain companies to put a corporate policy and measure into practice. Presided by a Director in charge of environmental affairs, this committee, which is consisted of environmental compliance administrators of business domain companies and regional headquarters, was held three times in 2008.

To address specific problems involving all groupwide companies, various environmental committees, subcommittees, and working groups have been setting up. Further strengthening cooperation with relevant divisions, we reinforce a foundation to support acceleration of environmental sustainability management.