To give concrete meaning to the Honda Environment Statement that specifies the general direction of Honda environmental conservation activities, Honda has made efforts to establish and expand its organization to deal with the environment. This step has been taken in recognition of the fact that fair management and return of benefits to the public as well as our efforts to reduce the environmental loads associated with our corporate activities are vital and essential to the maintenance of sustainable corporate activities in the future. On the basis of these concepts, Honda has established an environmental management system for the smooth deployment of environmental conservation activities.
Honda's environmental action plans are established by the individual active departments on the basis of medium-term policies determined by the Executive Committee. These plans are then discussed and approved at the Environmental Committee. After this, the individual active departments concerned push ahead with the commitment in accordance with these plans. The results are scrutinized and evaluated at the Environmental Committee and fed back into the next targets and plans to complete the PDCA*cycle at the regional level.
Universal issues shared worldwide are reported to the World Environmental Committee and fed back into the Medium-Term Policy Statement.
Since fiscal 1999, a new system has come into effect under which the World Environmental Committee has acquired an equal standing to the Executive Committee. This allows management to make faster decisions in environmental sphere.
The hallmark of Honda's activities is that planning and execution are not left to specially appointed staffs but rather that the individual employees of all departments are themselves involved. This is what Honda means with its idea that "All members of the Honda organization are individually engaged in a positive commitment to the environmental issues as their own duties".
*PDCA is an acronymic abbreviation standing for Plan, Do, check, Action.
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