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COO
Global
Environment
Management
Committee
Our Framework for Global Environment Management
Nissan’s Global Environment Management Organization
Stakeholders
Communication
CEO
Executive
Committee
Business partners
Customers
Employees
Shareholders and
investors
Communities and
future generations
Major Issues
Sincere Eco-Innovator
Nissan Global Environment Management
Reducing CO2 Emissions/
Shifting to Renewable Energies
Air, Water, Soil, Biodiversity
Resource Recycling
Products
&
Technology
Manufacturing
&
Logistics
Marketing
&
Sales
Business
Partners
Global, corporate focuses
PDCA
PDCA
PDCA
Functional, regional
focuses
Global
Environmental
Planning
Department
Act Do
Advisory Meetings,
etc.
Plan
Check
Demand for mineral resources and fossil fuels has steadily increased in
response to the economic growth of emerging countries. In addition to
promoting reduced use of virgin natural resources through resource-saving
and resource-recycling measures, it is becoming important to procure natural
resources that have a lower impact on the Earth’s ecosystems, not only from
the standpoint that these resources are limited but also considering the
wide-ranging effects that resource extraction has on ecosystems. Nissan has
raised to 25% the target for the use of recycled material in new vehicles by
2016. To achieve this, we will promote design centered on the vehicle
lifecycle, reduce the use of scarce resources, reduce waste and promote
expanded use of recycled materials.
The issue of water resources is ever more serious with the retreat of
glaciers and rainfall fluctuation due to climate change, in addition to
increasing water use due to the growing world population and economic
development. Nissan, which uses water resources in its production process,
deeply recognizes the importance of this issue and continuously works to
preserve water resources at plants around the world, such as by reducing
consumption and recycling water discharged in the production process.
The purchasing divisions of Nissan and Renault carry out supply-chain
management in a manner consistent with The Renault-Nissan Purchasing
Way, a booklet outlining policies for dealing with suppliers, and the Renault-
Nissan CSR Guidelines for Suppliers. With respect to environmental issues,
we have set standards for the efforts of our automobile parts and material
suppliers in the form of the Nissan Green Purchasing Guidelines. In fiscal
2012 we added a number of environment-related criteria in selecting our
suppliers to coordinate our efforts to reduce environmental impact; we now
ask suppliers to furnish data regarding their CO2 emission levels and energy
use and also consider their management of environment-impacting
substances, recycling of resources and water-conservation efforts.
Thus, Nissan is working to achieve autonomous guidelines and targets
as part of its corporate social responsibility as well as to comply with laws and
regulations. In order to promote this environmental management on a global
basis, the Global Environment Management Committee (G-EMC) chaired by
the COO makes decisions on general direction and proposals to the Executive
Committee. The Environmental Planning Department within the Corporate
Planning and Business Development Division makes decisions on activity
targets for each department and region and conducts effective follow up of
the progress based on “plan, do, check, act” (PDCA) management.
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