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Customer Respect for Social Mazda CSR Quality Safety Management Satisfaction Environment People Contributions ENVIRONMENTAL COMMUNICATION Under the Mazda Global Environmental Charter, Mazda carries out a wide variety of environmental protection activities related to products and technologies; manufacturing, logistics, and office operations; and social contributions. The Company appropriately discloses information on each of these activities, and ensures opportunities for dialogue with the stakeholders, thereby striving to respond promptly and appropriately to social problems.*1 Participation in Environmental Exhibits and Events Mazda actively participates in various environment-related exhibitions and events, for the purpose of gaining stakeholders’ understanding regarding its environmental initiatives and hearing their broad range of opinions. Mazda adopts a wide range of approaches to communicate about the environment, such as introducing its advanced environmental technologies at motor shows all over the world and offering test-drives of its vehicles equipped with Skyactiv Technology at various events held in and outside Japan. Reducing Environmental Impact Generated by Communication Activities Mazda has been working to reduce the environmental impact generated by its communication activities. Environmental considerations in event operation ■ Reusing/recycling booth decorating items ■ Decreasing the amount of handouts to reduce CO2 emissions ■ Implementing carbon offsetting by calculating CO2 emissions from event activities Environmental considerations in publishing materials ■ Adopting FSC-certified paper, waterless printing, and vegetable oil ink ■ Implementing carbon offset by calculating CO2 emissions from the printing and bookbinding processes Use of Website and Publishing Materials Mazda ensures environmental communication in a wide variety of ways in consideration of matters of interest that each stakeholder may have and media that he/she may frequently use. Mazda uses images and computer graphics on its website in order to provide easy- to-understand explanations of environmental technologies. Reinforcing the use of social media, the Company disseminates information in a timely manner, and uses the comments provided to the Company for its daily operations. For the Mazda Sustainability Report, the Company has prepared in-depth/ digest versions, as well as PDF/Website/booklet versions, in consideration of stakeholders’ needs regarding the edition method/media to be used. The results of the collected questionnaires and the number of visitors to the website are provided to the executive officer in charge of related affairs, as well as to cooperating sections, as feedback, and used for planning the next fiscal year’s version. *1 Refer to the following URL for social contribution activities regarding environmental communications by the Mazda Group: https://www.mazda.com/en/csr/social/ 80 Mazda Sustainability Report 2020 Customer Respect for Social Mazda CSR Quality Safety Management Satisfaction Environment People Contributions a Companies that Participated in the Light-Down In-House Awareness-Raising Activities Campaign To raise environmental awareness among its employees, Mazda conducted a wide 1.Mazda Motor Corporation 54. Mazda Autozam Mihara 2. Hakodate Mazda Co., Ltd. 55. Mazda Autozam Kaita range of activities in FY March 2020 including the following. 3. Tohoku Mazda Co., Ltd. 56. Mazda Autozam Kusunoki Eco Walk Commuting Program 4. Fukushima Mazda Co., Ltd. 57. Mazda Autozam 5. Kitakanto Mazda Co., Ltd. Yasufuruichi In order to raise employees’ environmental consciousness and encourage them to 6. Koshin Mazda Co., Ltd. 58. Mazda Autozam Bairin take better care of their health, employees who walk two kilometers or more as 7. Kanto Mazda Co., Ltd. 59. Mazda Autozam Isumi 8. Shizuoka Mazda Co., Ltd. 60. Mazda Autozam Tsuyama part of their daily commute to work are rewarded with an addition of 1,500 yen per 9. Tokai Mazda Co., Ltd. 61. Mazda Autozam Fukuroi month to their commuting allowance. 10. Hokuriku Mazda Co., Ltd. 62. Mazda Autozam Fukaya, 11. Keiji Mazda Co., Ltd. Honjo, Kumagaya Lunchtime Lighting Halved 12. Kansai Mazda Co., Ltd. 63. Mazda Autozam 13. Nishi Shikoku Mazda Fukuchiyama Efforts to reduce lighting in Mazda offices and plants during lunch breaks to half Co., Ltd. 64. Mazda Autozam Kuse the normal levels have continuously been promoted. 14. Kyushu Mazda Co., Ltd. 65. Mazda Autozam Takehara 15. Okinawa Mazda 66. Mazda Autozam Yano Light-Down Campaign a Corporation 67. Mazda Autozam Sena (Participation by companies/facilities) 16. Mazda Parts Co., Ltd. 68. Toho Industrial Co., Ltd. 17. Mazda Chuhan Co., Ltd. 69. Nishikawa Rubber Co., Ltd. ■ Mazda Light-Down Campaign 18. Mazda Logistics Co., Ltd. 70. MCM Energy Service Co., Ltd. To raise environmental awareness, Mazda and its domestic Group companies 19. Kurashiki Kako Co., Ltd. 71. Mazda Autozam Sado 20. Mazda Engineering & 72. Mazda Autozam Chichibu-Nishi participated in the Light-Down (i.e., lights-off) Campaign, in which they Technology Co., Ltd. 73. Mazda Autozam 21. Mazda Ace Co., Ltd. Funabashi-Kita turned off their signboards and indoor lighting. 22. Mazda Parts Sales 74. Mazda Autozam Nichido- This campaign started in 2011 with turning off lights at Mazda’s six sites. Hiroshima Co., Ltd. Funabashi 23. Mazda Processing Chugoku 75. Mazda Autozam In 2019, when it was in the ninth year, the campaign was held with the Co., Ltd. Kashiwanoha-Campus participation of 769 production/business sites, including domestic Group 24. Yoshiwa Kogyo Co., Ltd. 76. Mazda Autozam Ogaki- 25. Toyo Advanced Higashi companies. These participating sites shut off lighting for two hours from Technologies Co., Ltd. 77. Mazda Autozam Izumo-Hirata 20:00 to 22:00 on June 22 (summer solstice) and July 7 (Tanabata, or the 26. Aomori-Mazda Automobile 78. Mazda Autozam Hofu-Chuo Corporation 79. Delta Kogyo Co., Ltd. Star Festival), 2019. This campaign saved 10 thousand kWh of electricity, 27. Chiba Mazda Co., Ltd. 80. Yowa Inc. 28. Mazda Odawara Co., Ltd. 81. Sugihara Co., Ltd. equivalent to around 5 tons of CO2 emissions. 29. Tokyo Mazda Corporation 82. Hiroshima Seiken Kogyo (No. of participants) Mazda Motor Corporation:15 sites, Domestic Group 30. Eunos Sansho Co., Ltd. Co., Ltd. 31. Kobe Mazda Co., Ltd. 83. Mazda Parts Sales companies: 754 sites of 81 companies 32. Nara Mazda Co., Ltd. Yamaguchi Co., Ltd. 33. Okayama Mazda Co., Ltd. 84. Mazda Parts Sales Chiba WWF’s Earth Hour 2020 ■ 34. Tottori Mazda Co., Ltd. Co., Ltd. Mazda and its domestic Group companies supported and participated in Earth 35. Hiroshima Mazda Co., Ltd. 85. Saga Mazda Co., Ltd. Hour 2020 organized by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), which is the world’s 36. Enfini Hiroshima Co., Ltd. 86. Eunos Horie Co., Ltd. 37. Minami Kyushu Mazda 87. Nagasaki Mazda Co., Ltd. largest global warming campaign. Co., Ltd. 88. Mazda Autozam 38. Mazda Autozam Miyamoto Yamamoto-Aoba They turned off the lighting of their signboards and indoor lighting for one hour Obihiro 89. Mazda Autozam Tanagura, from 20:30 to 21:30 on March 28, 2020. 39. Mazda Autozam Ebetsu Shin-Shirakawa 40. Mazda Autozam Asahikawa90. Mazda Autozam Ojiya (No. of participants) Mazda Motor Corporation: 16 sites, Domestic Group 41. Mazda Autozam 17 91. Mazda Autozam Nagaoka- companies: 786 sites of 88 companies 42. Mazda Autozam Maebashi- Nishi Chuo 92. Mazda Autozam Kashiwa (Participation by individuals) 43. Mazda Autozam Tonami 93. Mazda Autozam Iwase 44. Mazda Autozam Koriyama-94. Mazda Autozam Uchiko Employees’ private participation in the Light-Down campaign ■ Minami 95. Sakata Mazda Co., Ltd. In conjunction with the Mazda Light-Down Campaign, Mazda and its 45. Mazda Autozam Higashi 96. Mazda Autozam Geibi, 46. Mazda Autozam Ueda Miyoshi domestic Group companies conducted a private Light-Down campaign, in 47. Mazda Autozam Ayabe 97. Mazda Autozam Kihoku which their employees, family members and friends joined lights-off activities 48. Mazda Autozam Katsuragi 98. Mazda Autozam Kyosai 49. Mazda Autozam Matsue 99. Mazda Autozam on an individual basis. 50. Mazda Autozam Oda Kamogawa, Tateyama These participants turned off their lights for two hours from 20:00 to 22:00 51. Mazda Autozam Bizen 100. Mazda Autozam Iyotetsu- 52. Mazda Autozam Kurashiki- Matsuyama on June 22 (summer solstice) and July 7 (Tanabata, or the Star Festival), 2019. Chuo 101. Maps Co., Ltd. This private event resulted in saving 5,600 kWh of electricity, equivalent to 53. Mazda Autozam Fuchu 102. Hiroshima Seimitsu Co., Ltd. around 3 tons of CO2 emissions (estimated figures). Companies No. 70 to 82 participated only in the Mazda *Light-Down Campaign. (No. of participants) A rough total of 40,000 people, including all senior Companies No. 83 to 102 participated only in the WWF’s Earth Hour 2020. executives and general managers of Mazda Motor Corporation. Environmental Education during Environment Month To encourage every employee to think about and take action for the environment, educational programs regarding general environmental issues, the importance of biodiversity, Mazda’s environmental initiatives, and environmental conservation activities in the workplace have been implemented, in coordination with basic education on ISO 14001. 81 Mazda Sustainability Report 2020.