Toshiba Group Environmental Vision 2010 22 March, 2005 TOKYO -- Toshiba Corporation today announced that it has established Environmental Vision 2010 with the aim of improving the eco-efficiency of products throughout their life cycles. In addition to the eco-efficiency indicator for products, which was introduced in 2004, Toshiba has set an eco-efficiency indicator for the entire business process encompassing product development, manufacturing and recovery after the end of use. The target is to double Toshiba Group's overall eco-efficiency encompassing products and business processes by fiscal 2010 compared with that in fiscal 2000. Also, Toshiba has established the Fourth Voluntary Environmental Action Plan, a plan covering the period from fiscal 2005 to fiscal 2010 for achieving the target of Environmental Vision 2010. The voluntary plan calls for a 25% reduction ratio of energy-originated CO2 emission per nominal production volume compared with fiscal 1990. In fiscal 2004 Toshiba introduced an eco-efficiency concept*1, in which the value of a product and the product's environmental impact are related, and started activities to assess and improve eco-efficiency based on the factor*2, comparing the eco-efficiency of a product in the year subject to assessment to the eco-efficiency of a product in the benchmark year. Also, in fiscal 2004 Toshiba launched Factor T, an action program in which factors are applied to create environmentally conscious products with the objective of systematically improving product eco-efficiency. In Environmental Vision 2010, the scope of Factor T has been expanded from products to cover the entire business process. In Environmental Vision 2010, from the perspective of life cycle assessment (LCA), overall eco-efficiency*3 is calculated based on product eco-efficiency and business eco-efficiency, taking the ratio of the environmental impact during each phase, such as manufacturing and usage, into account. Toshiba aims to improve product eco-efficiency 2.2 times and business process eco-efficiency 1.2 times, thereby doubling overall eco-efficiency by fiscal 2010 compared with fiscal 2000.
More information on the Toshiba Group Environmental Vision 2010 can be found at: http://www.toshiba.co.jp/env/en/management/vision.htm More information on the 4th Voluntary Environmental Action Plan can be found at: http://www.toshiba.co.jp/env/en/management/plan4.htm |
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