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Ricoh Group Sustainability Report 2013 22
•฀฀Society฀with฀balanced฀relationship฀between฀Planet,฀
People and Profit (Three Ps Balance)
•฀฀฀Setting฀goals฀using฀
the back-casting method
2050 Long-Term
Environmental
Vision
Ideal society we should
pursue
Three Ps Balance
2050 Long-Term
Environmental Impact
Reduction Goals
2020 Mid-Term
Environmental Impact
Reduction Goals
Environmental
action plans set every
three years
Targets are set
based on the 2050
Long-Term Environmental
Impact Reduction Goals
Targets are set
in three areas

All aspects of the Earth
are well balanced
Major direction
and goals
Global Environment
Energy conservation
and prevention of
global warming
Resource
conservation and
recycling
Pollution
prevention
Reduce the total lifecycle CO2 emissions฀by฀the฀Ricoh฀Group฀by฀30%฀฀ ฀
by 2020 and by 87.5% by 2050 from the 2000 level
1. Reduce the new input of resources by 25% by 2020 and by 87.5% by
2050 from the 2007 level
2. Reduce the use of or replace the major materials of products that are
at high risk of depletion (e.g., crude oil, copper and chromium) by 2050
Minimize risks of chemical substances throughout the product lifecycle
by 2020 in compliance with the Strategic Approach to International
Chemicals Management (SAICM)
* Revised in March 2012
•฀Ricoh฀Group฀Mid-฀and฀Long-term฀Environmental฀Impact฀Reduction฀Goals
Creating corporate value through
sustainability
Our environmental conservation activities date
back to 1976, when we established our Environ-
mental Promotion Office. Those activities evolved
into the Ricoh Group’s “sustainable environmental
management” concept, which we pioneered 15 years
ago in 1998. The concept is often interpreted solely
as a business strategy that seeks to balance activities
that฀generate฀prot฀with฀greener฀practices.฀But฀our฀
vision for sustainable environmental management
goes deeper. We make organization-wide, continuous
environmental conservation efforts integral to our
business model.
We also recognize that we must carry out solid,
continuous efforts toward the long-term objective
of ensuring that our environmental performance
is effective enough to make a difference . Our
Overview Action Data & Profile
Environmental Management
Our vision for a sustainable society
The Ricoh Group sees a sustainable society as one that
balances Planet (environment), People (society), and
Profit (economic activities), reduces the environmental
impact and maintains it at a level that the Earth’s self-
recovery capabilities can manage. To realize this vision,
we strive to minimize our environmental impact from
resource extraction, energy consumption, chemical
discharges, emissions and other activities, and to
conserve the Earth’s precious resources. We are
building a business model that minimizes the footprint
of our activities while maximizing our economic
value and contribution to society. We strongly believe
that any enterprise without such a model will find it
impossible to earn the support of its stakeholders and
survive, let alone thrive, in the future.
conservation activities will produce limited benefits if
we conduct them only during prosperous times and
neglect them to pursue profits in difficult times.
Sustainable environmental management
from very long-term perspectives
At the Ricoh Group, we formulate our goals for
sustainable environmental management activities
using the back-casting method, developing ultimate
goals first and then determining target values as
mileposts on the journey toward these goals. Our
initial step was to create our Year 2050 Long-Term
Environmental Vision to realize an ideal society, the
“Three฀Ps฀Balance,”฀followed฀by฀our฀Mid-฀and฀Long-
Term Environmental Impact Reduction Goals and
detailed environmental action plans. We believe this
approach delivers a higher success rate than the
conventional buildup method.
Minimum disposal
Resource
recovery
Society
Global
environment
Economy
Resources
Money
Products
Production activities
Ecosystem
conservation
Consumption activities
ISO26000 : •฀The฀environment฀฀•฀Consumer฀issues฀฀