Achieving Reduction Targets for CO₂ Emissions across the Product Life Cycle

In addition to its efforts to reduce CO₂ emissions across the entire product life cycle, Konica Minolta sets targets for each stage including product usage, manufacturing, distribution, and sales and services. As a result of achieving the target values for CO₂ emissions from product usage and manufacturing processes, which account for nearly 90% of the total, the Group succeeded in meeting its overall target in fiscal 2010.
The Business Technologies Business accounts for more than 90% of CO₂ emissions during product usage, so the company is prioritizing efforts to reduce the energy consumed by these products. In fiscal 2010, the company launched the bizhub 184/164 monochrome MFP with industry-top-class low power consumption, which contributed to achieving the reduction target.
Regarding CO₂ emissions resulting from manufacturing processes, the Green Factory Certification System incorporates its own criteria to encourage each business unit to increase its energy efficiency in production, thereby steadily reducing CO₂ emissions per unit of production (output or production volume).
The Group did not achieve its targets for CO₂ emissions from distribution, or from sales and services. In particular, the increase in air freight required to respond to volatile demand trends had a significant impact on the emissions, and as a result the Group missed the target by a large margin.

• Green Factory Certification System

• Standards for Calculating Environmental Data

How the targets are set

In the Medium-Term Environmental Plan, Konica Minolta has set the reduction target for CO₂ emissions over the product life cycle for fiscal 2015 at 20% based on the 80% reduction set as the target in Eco Vision 2050. However, based on the progress of its environmental policies and the current economic environment, Konica Minolta has set a reduction target of 44.4% for fiscal 2011. The Group may change the target for fiscal 2015, anticipating future growth in sales.

More information on the target areas is available at the following links:

• CO₂ Emissions from Product Usage
• CO₂ Emissions from Manufacturing
• CO₂ Emissions from Distribution
• CO₂ Emissions from Sales and Service