Suzuki 2007 Annual Report Download - page 13

SUZUKI MOTOR CORPORATION
OTHER TOPICS
Environment
As a general manufacturer of automobiles, motorcycles, outboard motors,
etc., Suzuki addresses environmental conservation at all stages—from
development to disposal.
In environmentally-friendly products development, we make every effort to
research and develop new products that satisfy customer demands by
dealing with issues such as improving fuel economy, reducing exhaust
emissions, promoting the three Rs, reducing noise, managing and reducing
materials with environmental impact, recycling, etc.
In environmentally-friendly manufacturing, we also address issues such as
considering the environment at all corporate sites, preventing pollution,
promoting energy reduction and the use of alternative energy, managing and
reducing materials with environmental impact, promoting the three Rs, etc.
In environmentally-friendly distribution and offices, we are focusing on
using efficient transportation efficiency and reducing energy consumption,
promoting the three Rs, promoting the use of low emission transport and
promoting green purchasing, etc.
In environmentally-friendly marketing, in addition to promoting environment
management at our distributors, proper disposal of end of -life products, we
are advancing the environmentally proper treatment of our products after
being used by the customer.
Also, in environmentally-friendly education and information disclosure, we
are promoting environmental conservation through a variety of projects such
as environmental education and providing environmental information,
promotion social action program etc.
• 2006 Topics
We published the Suzuki 2006 Environmental and Social Report. Suzuki has
published an environmental report annually since fiscal 1999 to provide
information on all activities related to the environment.
In our environmental cleanup activities, we are conducting forest
conservation activities at Shimokawa Test Course in Hokkaido.
Shimokawa town in Hokkaido, where our proving ground is located, is
surrounded by forest, which accounts for about 90% of the total land in that
region. In order to conserve this valuable forest resource and pass it to the
next generation, the Shimokawa town forest owners’ cooperative made
arrangements for the forest conservation system and acquired the FSC Forest
Group Certificate* in 2003, which was the nation’s 11th and Hokkaido’s first
acquisition.
The 287-ha forest in the Suzuki Shimokawa Test Course also proved to
conform to the strict standard of the FSC certification program, so it was
included in the FSC Forest Group Certificate for Shimokawa Town in April
2006. Thus, Suzuki always considers the coexistence with nature, while
conducting industrial activities.
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*FSC is an internationally recognized certification
on the “forest management with due
considerations to the balance among
environment, society and economics.”
FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) is a Germany-based
organization established in 1993 in line with the international
forest certification program to certify, from authorized third-
party’s standpoint, that forests are properly managed
according to the basic rules and regulations.
Suzuki 2006 Environmental
and Social Report
Shimokawa Test Course
(Hokkaido)
FSC Group Certificate