Honda North American Environmental Report 2008 Honda 2008 North American Environmental Report

Honda North American Environmental Report 2008 Honda 2008 North American Environmental Report Honda The 2008 North American Environmental Report covers Honda’s activities in the North American Environmental Report United States, Canada, and Mexico — including company policies, the overall direction 2008 of our environmental initiatives, and the environmental impact of our operations — for the fiscal year that began April 1, 2007, and ended March 31, 2008 (FY2008). We Value Your Opinion We are interested in your response to this report, which will help us improve our reporting in the future. Please visit our Website www.corporate.honda.com to complete a survey. SECTION ONE Management and Direction SECTION TWO Global Climate Change A Letter from Our North American Chief Operating Officer 1 Addressing Global Climate Change 4 Environmental Management 2 Honda’s Voluntary Global CO2 Reduction Targets 5 Honda Environmental Statement 2 Honda’s Approach to Reducing GHG Emissions 6 Environmental Laws and Regulations 3 Honda’s Position on Climate Change Policy 12 SECTION THREE Reducing Honda’s Environmental Footprint For the 2008 Report, we have adopted Honda’s Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) Model 13 Summary of Environmental Goals a life-cycle approach to the organization of and Actions in FY2008 14 materials and data concerning the environmental Product Development 16 impact of our operations in North America. Designing for the Environment 16 Reducing Substances of Concern 17 Product Environmental Performance 18 Automobiles 18 Development Fuel Efficiency 18 Application of Technology 19 Exhaust Emissions 20 End-of-Life Purchasing Powersports Products 21 Fuel Efficiency/Exhaust Emissions 21 Power Equipment 22 Administration Fuel Efficiency/Exhaust Emissions 22 Home Energy Cogeneration 22 Sales and Purchasing — Green Purchasing 23 Service Manufacturing Manufacturing — Green Factory 25 Production Activity 26 ISO Certification 26 CO Emissions 27 Distribution 2 Energy Consumption 28 Waste to Landfill 29 Water Use 30 This new organization reflects our focus on Air Emissions 30 Chemical Releases 31 a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) model in the Distribution — Product Distribution 32 measurement of our environmental footprint. Sales and Service 33 End-of-Life — Product Recycling 34 Administration — Green Buildings, Green Office, and Land Stewardship 35 Supplemental Information Environmental Technology Milestones 38 Environmental Community Activities 40 North American Corporate Profile 41 Honda 2008 North American Environmental Report 1 A Letter from Our North American Chief Operating Officer Next year, we will mark the first 50 years of Honda’s operations in North America. As we consider this important milestone in our company’s history, we are fundamentally assessing the value that we bring to our customers and to the communities where we do business. In this spirit, we are not simply reflecting on the pioneering and we are promoting similar efforts among our many business accomplishments of our past. Rather, in the area of partners in the region. In 2006, Honda became the first environmental responsibility, we are rededicating ourselves to automaker to earn a green building certification. Today, we have the goal first expressed by a group of young Honda engineers five facilities certified to the standards of the U.S. Green Building almost four decades ago — to use technology to preserve Council (the nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing “Blue Skies for our Children.” In short, we recognize that it is green building design and construction), including the our responsibility to help protect our environment and ensure automobile industry’s only Platinum-certified existing building. a sustainable future for personal mobility. At the same time, we are continuing our efforts to reduce waste and the use of potentially harmful substances. In 2007, six of our Two years ago, Honda became the first automaker to set 14 North American manufacturing plants were operating as voluntary goals for the reduction of CO emissions from both 2 zero-waste-to-landfill facilities. Total waste from automobile its products and production operations on a global basis. production was reduced 78% from 2001 levels. Based on this commitment, we are accelerating our efforts to advance our environmental performance, with a strong focus This 2008 North American Environmental Report addresses on the reduction of CO2 emissions that contribute to global these and the many other efforts being undertaken by Honda climate change. associates to reduce our environmental footprint in the region. Toward this challenging goal, we are working to reduce the Over the past half century, we have enjoyed tremendous environmental footprint of our products by further advancing growth in North America, and we are thankful for the support fuel efficiency and accelerating the introduction of alternative- we have received from our customers and society. But we fuel technologies. will not consider our next 50 years to be a success unless we are able to make further progress in the environmental Over the past year, we expanded the use of technology to make performance of our products and the operations that help V6-powered Honda and Acura vehicles more fuel-efficient. And bring them to market. Only in this way can we fulfill Honda’s early next year, we will further advance Honda hybrid technology environmental vision and our commitment to being with the introduction of a new, more affordable hybrid car. “a company that society wants to exist.” For the longer-term future, we remain committed to the Sincerely, development of fuel cell vehicle technology and to advancing this technology in the real world. In July 2008, we began leasing our next-generation FCX Clarity fuel cell car to retail customers in the United States as part of our global plan to lease 200 of these zero-emissions, hydrogen-powered vehicles over the next three years. Most of these vehicles will be placed in the hands of our customers in California, who live close to existing publicly accessible hydrogen refueling stations. Tetsuo Iwamura We are also working continuously to improve the energy Chief Operating Officer, North American Regional Operation efficiency of our factories, offices, and warehouse facilities, President & CEO, American Honda Motor Co., Inc. Tetsuo Iwamura, COO of Honda’s North American Regional Operation, introducing the new FCX Clarity hydrogen- powered fuel cell car at the 2007 Los Angeles International Auto Show. 2 Honda 2008 North American Environmental Report Environmental Management Honda has long viewed the preservation of the environment as a core management responsibility. Our efforts extend to all aspects of Honda’s business operations and involve associates at all levels of our organization. Guiding Our Environmental Efforts In June 1992, we established and announced the Honda Environmental Statement to define our commitment and to guide our efforts to address environmental issues. Honda Environmental Statement “As a responsible member of society whose We should pursue our daily business interests under the following principles: task lies in the preservation of the global 1. We will make every effort 3. As both a member of the to recycle materials and conserve company and of society, each environment, the company will make every resources and energy at every associate will focus on the stage of our products’ life cycle, importance of making efforts effort to contribute to human health and the from research, design, production to preserve human health and sales, to service and disposal. and the global environment, and will do his or her part to preservation of the global environment in 2. We will make every ensure that the company as effort to minimize and find a whole acts responsibly. each phase of its corporate activity. Only in this appropriate methods to dispose of waste and contaminants 4. We will consider the influence way will we be able to promote a successful that are produced through the that our corporate activities have use of our products, and in on the regional environment future not only for our company, every stage of the life cycle and society, and endeavor to of these products. improve the social standing of but for the entire world.” the company. D World Environmental Committee The World Environmental committee, established in March 1995, considers global plans in accordance with our business plans, determines environmental policies consistent with the company’s environmental mission statement, and conducts annual reviews of their implementation. With guidance from the World Environmental Committee, regional committees set goals and objectives for their respective regions. D North American Environmental Committee The North American committee serves as the coordinating body for the region — including the United States, Canada and Mexico. It is charged with promoting ways to minimize the environmental impact of every aspect of Honda’s operations in the region. Honda’s North American Environmental Committee comprises major Honda companies in the region: Honda North America, Inc. Honda Canada, Inc. Honda Manufacturing of Alabama, LLC Honda of Canada Mfg. American Honda Motor Co., Inc. Honda of America Mfg., Inc. Honda Manufacturing of Indiana, LLC Honda R&D Americas, Inc. Product Planning Recycling and Manufacturing Communication and Development Green Building (Green Factory) Coordinated by Coordinated by Coordinated by Coordinated by American Honda Motor Co., Inc. American Honda Motor

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