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Changes in total greenhouse gas emissions
1990
800
600
400
200
01995 2000 2005 2010 2015 2020 2025
FY
Emission reductions
obtainable from usual emission quantity
Greenhouses gases
other than CO
2
CO
2
originating from energy
(thousand tons – CO
2
)
* The report covers Toshiba Group companies in Japan and overseas, and business processes at production and non-production facilities. Values are
actual up to FY2008 and projections for subsequent fiscal years. CO2emission coefficients of electricity up to 2020 are expected to decrease. (Based
on the Japanese government’s plan to increase the zero-emission power source rate, announced in the July 2008 “Action plan to achieve a low-
carbon society.”) Business as usual values represent levels of emissions where no reduction measures are deployed. Greenhouse gases excluding
CO2include methane, nitrous oxide, hydrofluorocarbons, perfluorocarbons and sulfur hexafluoride.
2025.
Our target is to cut total CO2emissions by
about 120 million tons
-
around twice the annual
emissions of a mega-city like Tokyo or Greater
London.
Toshiba Group reduced greenhouse gas
emissions from manufacturing and other
activities by 50% between 1990 and 2000.
However, subsequent expansion of the
semiconductor business sent emissions up again,
a trend that is expected to continue with
construction of new semiconductor factories.
Our past approach was to try to reduce
emissions relative to production. However, we
aim to increase our efforts to cut emissions based
on absolute targets. Priority goes to measures
that mitigate global warming, such as building
energy-efficient clean rooms and installing
greenhouse gas processing equipment. Our goal
is to significantly reduce emissions and achieve
higher productivity. Toward this, by 2012, we are
working to control the rate of increase in
greenhouse gas emissions. Beyond that, we seek
to achieve a reduction of nearly 40% by 2025, as
compared to emissions in 1990.
Toshiba Group signed the United Nations Global
Compact (GC) in 2004 and adheres to universal
principles on human rights, labor, the
environment, and anti-corruption. We educate
Toshiba Group employees worldwide on GC, and
provide them with copies of the “Toshiba Group
Standards of Conduct,” now translated into 15
languages, and which reflects the contents of the
GC. Further, Toshiba Group Procurement Policy,
based on the GC, requires our suppliers to
promote CSR. We regularly monitor our suppliers,
and in November 2008 conducted CSR audits of
suppliers in Thailand.
Going forward, as a
“
corporate citizen of
planet Earth,
”
we will seek to maintain the trust of
the wider community.
Toward a significant reduction in total
greenhouse gas emissions
Realizing the United Nations Global
Compact