Pioneer Group Environmental Activities Report 2015 Contents
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Pioneer Group Environmental Activities Report 2015 Contents Corporate Profile・Editorial Policy・Period Covered by This Report .................................................. 2 Environmental Activities of Pioneer Environmental Activities of Pioneer ..................................................................................................................... 3 Initiatives in Product Development ...................................................................................................................... 5 Initiatives in Business Activities ............................................................................................................................... 6 Pioneer's Environmental Impact ............................................................................................................................ 7 Environmental Accounting ....................................................................................................................................... 8 Special Topics 1 Reduce Electric Power at the Data Center! ...................................................................................................... 9 Eliminate Worries about Electric Vehicles! ......................................................................................................11 Want to Know about Your Fuel Consumption before Driving! .............................................................. 13 Eco-Friendliness in Products Super Advanced Eco-Model ................................................................................................................................... 15 Prevention of Global Warming from Products ............................................................................................ 21 Management of Chemical Substances Contained in Products ........................................................... 23 Resource Recycling of Products .......................................................................................................................... 25 Eco-Friendliness in Cars ........................................................................................................................................... 26 Eco-friendly for houses and towns .................................................................................................................... 29 Special Topics 2 Let's Cleanup the Temples of Thailand! .......................................................................................................... 31 Initiatives in Offices and Plants Global Warming Prevention Activities ............................................................................................................. 32 Reduction in Waste and Valuables ..................................................................................................................... 36 Management of Chemical Substances ............................................................................................................ 38 Biodiversity........................................................................................................................................................................ 39 Effective Use of Water Resources ........................................................................................................................ 40 Environmental Data of Offices and Plants ..................................................................................................... 41 Education/Enlightenment ...................................................................................................................................... 42 Communication Together with Stakeholders .................................................................................................................................. 44 Environmental Communication Through Events ..................................................................................... 46 Initiatives in Environmental Exchange ............................................................................................................. 47 Cleanup Activities Connecting with the World .......................................................................................... 48 Protecting Forests to Conserve Resources .................................................................................................... 49 Pioneer's History of Environmental Preservation ....................................................................................... 50 Scope of Data ................................................................................................................................................................. 51 1 Corporate Profile Company PIONEER CORPORATION Headquarters 1-1 Shin-Ogura, Saiwai-Ku, Kawasaki-shi, Kanagawa 212-0031, Japan Phone +81-44-580-3211 President Susumu Kotani Founded January 1 ,1938 Established May 8 , 1947 Main Businesses Car Electronics Business Home Electronics Business Others Capital 91,731 million yen ( as of June 30, 2013) Net sales 501,676 million yen (consolidated) ( as of March 31, 2015) Number of employees 19,404 (as of March 31,2015) (consolidated) Editorial Policy ・ This report has been created for all stakeholders for the purpose of conveying information related to environment conservation activities to as many people as possible. We aim to fulfill our role as a responsible corporation . ・ During the production of the environmental report, we referred to the GRI* Guidelines and the Environmental Reporting Guidelines 2012 from the Ministry of the Environment. With the guidelines as our guiding principle, we will continue to strive for ever greater accuracy. * GRI (Global Reporting Initiative) is an international organization established to improve the quality of corporate communications so as to realize sustainable development. Period Covered by This Report ・ The period covered by the data is FY2015 (April 2014 - March 2015), but whenever possible, the latest events have been included even if outside this period. ・Expansion of the range of the data and scrutiny of the figures has caused some changes from the figures released last year. ・There may be some discrepancies between subtotals and totals due to rounding off. 2 Environmental Activities of Pioneer Environmental Activities of Pioneer Basic Concept of Environmental Activities The Pioneer Group aims to uphold and share its philosophy: "Move the Heart and Touch the Soul" through its business activities. We consider one of the major factors in achieving this goal is the preservation of the global environment, with our "Philosophy of Environmental Protection" established in 1992. In recent years, an increase in the world's population and expansion in economic activities have accelerated environmental problems such as global warming, pollution, loss of resources, and biodiversity which previously had been advocated has now become apparent. The range of social responsibility in continuing business exceeds our fields, where we are expected to achieve activities related to environmental preservation through entire lifecycles, contributing to the environment through our products and services. In order to achieve a sustainable society with stakeholders, the Pioneer Group promotes cross cutting strategies for environmental protection in view of laws and regulations and social contributions in response to each issue. We initiate our activities via environmental education and proactively disclosing information of the results. Philosophy of Environmental Preservation The Pioneer Group will make efforts to always contribute to maintaining and realizing the rich and safe global environment through our corporate activities, based on the general understanding that it is one of our corporate missions to maintain, improve, and hand over the global environment to the next generation. Environmental Policies The Pioneer Group shall promote environmental preservation activities through four basic actions to address four key environmental issues. In order to realize environmental contributions from the perspective of stakeholders, we promote a shared vision of our environmental policy globally. Basic Policies of Environmental Preservation Key environmental issues Basic actions 1. Prevention of Global Warming 5. Compliance to Laws and Regulations Efforts shall be implemented to reduce energy use and While complying with applicable environmental laws and greenhouse gas emissions attributable from our business regulations, establish voluntary management standards activities and the product's life cycle. necessary to perform the business activities. 6. Disclosure of Information, and Communication 2. Conservation of Resources, and Recycling Provide environment related information to the stakeholders, Strive to reduce use of materials and water resources in the and respect the opinions widely from both inside and outside business process, and to promote recycling of resources as the company advantageously for environmental activities. much as possible. 3. Management of Chemical Substances 7. Environmental Education While having awareness for environmental preservation, Manage a secure control for the use of chemical substances, promote environmental education and training with the aim and to continuously reduce or strive for alternatives of developing human resources to enable taking action to regarding potentially hazardous chemicals that may be environmental activities. harmful. Moreover, in using chemical substances, efforts shall be made