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CSR (SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSIBILITY)
Nikon CSR Activities That Support Growth
★: Includes quantitative data covered by independent practitioner’s assurance. (See page 85 for details.)
Expansion and Promotion of Environmental Management
The Nikon Basic Environmental Management Policy
The Nikon Group believes in the importance of using resources
effi ciently and preventing environmental pollution to pass on a
sustainable and healthy planet to future generations. As a
Group, we have formulated the Nikon Basic Environmental
Management Policy and strive to protect the global environment.
Environmental Management System
The Nikon Group has established an environmental manage-
ment organization based on the Nikon Basic Environmental
Management Policy and is implementing a Groupwide environ-
mental management system under the leadership of the
Environmental & Technical Administration Department. Through
this organization, we constantly monitor the enactment and
enforcement of relevant regulations, treaties, and standards
both within and outside Japan, track social needs, and set up
response structures. We also take measures to prevent and rec-
tify soil pollution and accidental spills of hazardous substances.
Furthermore, under the Nikon Environmental Action Plan,
which outlines our medium-term goals, we set environmental
targets for each fi scal year, evaluate our performance, and iden-
tify and review any issues.
Product-Related Activities
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◆ Eco-Friendly Product Development
The Nikon Group is working toward improving its products to
reduce the environmental impact as much as possible across
the entire product lifecycle and continues to operate a unique
management system designed to spur the development of even
more advanced eco-friendly products.
Continuing Environmental Conservation Activities in an Effective
Manner toward the Creation of a Recycling-Oriented Society
Environmental Action Plan – Results for the Year Ended March 31, 2014 [Summary] Self-evaluation
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: Achieved
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: Measures started but not yet achieved
Theme Targets Results Self-
evaluation
Product-related
activities
Energy conservation
(prevention of global
warming)
• Improve overall energy effi ciency
Improve overall energy effi ciency of new representative prod-
ucts released during the year ending March 31, 2014
• Improved average power consumption efficiency for all
models of newly released products
As an example, improved power consumption effi ciency for the
D3300 Nikon DX-format digital SLR camera (launched in Feb.
2014) by 25% (compared with D3200)
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Reduction in the use
of hazardous chemical
substances
• Maintain 100% compliance for products subject to the RoHS
Directive*1
• Continued to maintain 100% compliance for products subject
to the RoHS Directive
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Distribution
• Reduction in environmental impact of physical distribution
Foster the visualization of CO2 emissions from international
distribution
• Understand CO2 emissions due to distribution between Nikon
and outside Japan
Calculated CO2 emissions from distribution in Europe
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Activities at
facilities
Reduction in GHG
emissions (CO2emis-
sions from energy use)
• Total CO2 emissions from Nikon Corporation and Group manu-
facturing companies in Japan: 135 thousand tons or less
• CO2 emissions per unit of real output from Group manufactur-
ing companies outside Japan: Achieve a 7% reduction from the
baseline emissions (= average for the period from the year
ended March 31, 2006, to the year ended March 31, 2008)
• Total CO2 emissions from Nikon Corporation and Group manu-
facturing companies in Japan: 124 thousand tons
• Group manufacturing companies outside Japan: Reduced by
7.5% from the average for the period from the year ended
March 31, 2006, to the year ended March 31, 2008 (improve-
ment per unit of output)
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Waste reduction
• Waste from Nikon Corporation and Group manufacturing com-
panies in Japan: Maintain at levels of the year ended March
31, 2011 (4,867 tons or less)*2
(Zero emissions)
• Facilities that have achieved level 1: Build a level S system
• Hikari Glass (Changzhou) Optics Co., Ltd., and Nanjing Nikon
Jiangnan Optical Instrument Co., Ltd.: Build a level 3 system
• Waste from Nikon Corporation and Group manufacturing compa-
nies in Japan: Maintained levels of the year ended March 31,
2011 (3,796 tons)*2
(Zero emissions)
• For facilities that have achieved level 1: Achieved level S
• Hikari Glass (Changzhou) Optics Co., Ltd., and Nanjing Nikon
Jiangnan Optical Instrument Co., Ltd.: Achieved level 3
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Conserve forest
resources • Collect and analyze data on reducing use of photocopy paper
• Nikon Corporation: Understood quantities of paper purchased
for photocopying and other printouts
Link to reduction during or after the year ending March 31, 2015
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Others
Environmental man-
agement system
(EMS)
(Integrated ISO 14001 certifi cation)
• Nikon Metrology UK Ltd.: complete certifi cation
(Integrated ISO 14001 certifi cation)
• Nikon Metrology UK Ltd.: obtained certifi cation
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*1. RoHS stands for Restriction of Hazardous Substances. This directive was adopted by the EU and restricts the use of certain hazardous chemical substances in electrical and electronic
equipment with a view to minimizing the risks that these substances pose to the environment and human health.
*2. Except valuable resources
The Nikon Basic Environmental Management Policy
http://www.nikon.com/about/csr/environment/promote/policy/
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