Michiyoshi Hagino
Director in charge of environment
Senior Managing and Representative Director
Hiroyuki Yoshino
President and Representative Director
The door to the 21st century has been opened and a host of technologies that have been futuristic dreams so far are now about to become reality. Developments such as fuel cell electric vehicles are attracting great attention as the key to our next generation's mobility are the most prominent examples in point. Already the development race among the companies in the field has become increasingly competitive. Surely, what the public demands most from the companies is that they should show the practical results they have achieved in their quest for opening up these vast future possibilities for the benefit of mankind.
Honda takes up these technical challenges of our new century with a full commitment to a range of environmental conservation activities that are and will be deployed in all domains, including our products, our production, distribution and sale. At the same time, the technical know-how acquired over the years and our commitment to the environment will be deployed horizontally to the worldwide Honda-affiliated companies.
The underlying concept of these activities is the principle of "Respect for the Individual" that has been our corporate leitmotif since Honda's foundation. This philosophy is also underpinned by the three basic action concepts that give substance to our corporate activities: "Joy for the Next Generation" "Expanding the Joy" and "Creating New Values of Joy " expressing our vision for the 21st century which is the ambition of being "A company people, that is, customers from all over the world, can look up to." In this context, Honda announced the year before last its achievement targets for 2005 in terms of the improvement of fuel efficiency of Honda products and the cleanliness of their exhaust gases. These goals have been set in a clear recognition of our obligation to make a substantial contribution to environmental conservation.
In line with this basic policy orientation, Honda will deploy its commitment to environmental conservation also in the future to cover the entire range of its corporate activities. To this end, we will offer our customers products benefiting from superior environmental technologies in the comitment to make our contribution to conserving the regional and global environment.
The specific areas of progress made in fiscal 2000 include the introduction of the DOHC i-VTEC engine which marks a further step in the evolution in fuel economy and clean exhaust gas performance in the product domain, and the achievement of zero landfill disposal in the production domain. At the same time, we have made significant headway in our future-oriented efforts to benefit the next generation with the commencement of fuel cell electric vehicle test runs on public roads.
This Report sums up our results for each fiscal year and is published each year to keep the public informed of our progress. This present FY2001 edition highlights our progress in achieving the attainment goals we have set ourselves for the year 2005. We have done our best to make further improvement in the presentation of the data by structuring this report in a form conveying our results in a more concise and comprehensible manner than before. We have also increased the range of items disclosed in our Report.
We would feel our efforts were fully rewarded if our readers were kind enough to let us have the benefit of their frank opinions and reactions in response to their perusal of this Report.
Hiroyuki Yoshino
President and Representative Director
Michiyoshi Hagino
Director in charge of environment
Senior Managing and Representative Director
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