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Environment Plan: Objectives and Efforts
Medium-Term Environmental Plan 2015
Konica Minolta has established its Medium-Term Environmental Plan 2015 as a milestone marker toward the goals outlined in Eco Vision 2050. The plan comprises specific approaches and targets for four objectives: preventing global warming, supporting a recycling-oriented society, reducing the risk of chemical substances, and restoring and preserving biodiversity. The Group has designated these objectives as goals for all of its businesses to pursue, and is incorporating them into its business plans while formulating specific measures for their achievement, with the overall aim to successfully carry out the Medium-Term Environmental Plan 2015.
| Objectives | Major Fiscal 2015 Targets (Base Year: Fiscal 2005*1) | Initiatives | |
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| Preventing global warming | CO2 emissions throughout product life cycle: Reduce by 20% | ||
| CO2 emissions from product usage: Reduce by 60% | •Develop new energy-saving technologies and incorporate them in products | ||
| CO2 emissions from manufacturing: Reduce by 10% (per unit of sales) | •Improve energy efficiency by developing better production technologies •Achieve Green Factory Certification standards on a business unit basis |
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| CO2 emissions from distribution: Reduce by 30% (per unit of sales) | •Improve distribution efficiency through SCM*2 | ||
| CO2 emissions from sales and service: Reduce by 50% (per unit of sales) | •Increase efficiency in sales and services | ||
| Supporting a recycling-oriented society | Petroleum-based resource usage: Reduce by 20% (per unit of sales) | •Develop new technologies of resource conservation and incorporate them in products •Reduce the volume of waste from manufacturing activities by developing new production technologies •Reduce fuel consumption via more efficient sales and service activities |
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| Packaging materials usage: Reduce by 25% (per unit of sales) | •Decrease the volume of product packaging | ||
| Waste discharged externally*3 from manufacturing: Reduce by 50% (per unit of sales) | •Reduced production loss through better production technologies and production innovations (zero waste activities) •Achieve Green Factory Certification standards on a business unit basis |
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| Product recycling: Build up product recycling systems in each region and aim for a recycling rate of 90% or more | •Optimize resource recovery systems in each region | ||
| Reducing the risk of chemical substances | Chemical substance management: Maintain strict management of chemical substances, including the entire supply chain*4 | •Establish a new chemical substance management system | |
| Atmospheric emissions of volatile organic compounds (VOCs): Reduce by 75% (environmental impact index*5) | •Reduce VOC risk through better production technologies and production innovations •Achieve reduction plan on a business unit basis |
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| Restoring and preserving biodiversity | Help restore and preserve biodiversity | •Create programs for biodiversity preservation and restoration | |
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- Many international frameworks use 1990 as a base year for greenhouse gas reduction targets. Konica Minolta, however, decided to use fiscal 2005 as its base year, as the result of a Group merger in 2003 and the considerable changes that have been made to its business portfolio since then.
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- Supply Chain Management (SCM): A method for effectively managing the flow of goods from procurement to production, and from sales to final product delivery to the customer.
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- Waste discharged externally: Volume discharged outside Konica Minolta sites, obtained by subtracting the internally recycled and reduced volumes from the total waste generated in production processes.
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- Supply chain: In this case, the process by which raw materials from upstream companies pass through component manufacturers and are delivered to Konica Minolta.
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- Environmental impact index: An index unique to Konica Minolta designed to measure impact on the environment, obtained by multiplying VOC emission volume by a hazard factor (impact on human health and environmental impact) and a location factor.