Honda is in the process of introducing environmental accounting based on the following objectives:
Environmental accounting is to provide a management tool in the environmental area.
Environmental accounting offers indices for corporate evaluation and serves as a data source for disclosure to the public.
The table below gives the costs and effects of the environmental conservation activities conducted in fiscal 2001.
In this fiscal year, Honda will announce its environmental conservation costs, and as the effect of the costs, the reduced amounts of main environmental loads in the production and logistics domains. For details, please refer to the sections describing each of the domains. Consideration will be given to the expansion of Official Statement of Effect coupling with the introduction of LCA. The effects will include economic effects as well and criteria will be established to calculate the effects of corporate environmental activities in each of the domains.
Costs and Effects of Environmental Conservation Activities(Unit : million yen)
Category
Details of the major activities, etc.
Investment
amount
Expense
amount
Effects
Business
areas
costs
Pollution prevention costs
· Prevention of air, water and soil pollution, etc.
177
1,950
• Production domain
Reduced CO2 emissions: 18,000CO2-tons
(4% reduction as compared with the previous fiscal year) → See page
Reduced energy intensity: 0.89kl/L100million
(3.5% reduction as compared with the previous fiscal year)→ See page
Reduced externally disposed wastes: 5tons
(100% reduction as compared with the previous fiscal year)→ See page
Reduced incinerated waste: 830tons
(9.6% reduction as compared with the previous fiscal year)→ See page
Reduced VOC emission: 8.5g/m2
(17% reduction as compared with the previous fiscal year)→ See page
Reduced PRTR substance emission: 129tons
(5% reduction as compared with the previous fiscal year)→ See page
• Logistics domain
Reduced CO2 emission in the transport of completed automobiles:
785CO2-tonsCO2→ See page
Reduced packaging materials for repair parts: 1,119tons
(Approximately 8% reduction as compared with the previous fiscal year)→ See page
Global environmental
conservation costs
· Prevention of global warming and ozone layer depletion, and other
environmental conservation
1,215
517
Resource circulation costs
· Disposal, reduction and recycling of waste
152
1,278
Upstream/downstream costs
· Green purchasing (balance)
· Collection, recycling, reuse and proper disposal of the products
manufactured and sold
· Member fees and other charges paid to trade organizations
5
2,263
Management activity costs
· Provision of environmental training to employees
· Building, operation and acquisition of the certification of an
environmental management system
· Monitoring and measurement of environmental impacts
· Organization in charge of environmental conservation measures
9
830
Research and
development costs
· Research and development of products contributing to environmental conservation
· Research, development and planning for reducing environmental
impacts in the manufacturing, distribution and marketing processes
3,970
100,360
Social activity costs
· Environmental improvement measures including nature protection,
greening and the preservation of beautiful scenery
· Provision of support and information to local citizens
· Donation and support to organizations engaged in environmental
conservation activities
· Disclosure of environment-related information and environmental
advertisement
0
156
Environmental damage costs
· Costs for taking measures against environment-related recalls
· Restoration of polluted soil and underground water
0
401
1)
The scope of the present calculations is as follows:
&midcot; Companies included in the accounts Honda Motor Co., Ltd. Honda R&D Co., Ltd. Honda Engineering Co., Ltd., Honda Motorcycle Japan Co., Ltd.
&midcot; Domains included in the accounts All domains in the life cycle of Honda products
2)
The published figures include some that have been estimated and some given as combined figures because of the difficulty of determining differential amounts.
3)
For the tabulation, we referred to the Environmental Accounting Guidelines (Fiscal Year 2002 Version), which was published in March 2002 by the Ministry of the Environment of Japan.
4)
This Report publishes the specific results achieved in our efforts for each fiscal year. Starting from this fiscal year, the aggregate total of our environmental conservation costs are quoted on a cash-flow basis in terms of the monetary amount less depreciation costs.
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