Environmental Management
To give concrete meaning to the Honda Environment Statement,
which specifies the general direction of the Company’s environmental
conservation activities, Honda has made efforts to establish and
expand its organization with respect to the environment. For the
effective implementation of environmental conservation activities,
we have established an environmental management system as described
below.
General Policy
Honda’s environmental action plans are established by individual
departments based on the medium-term policies developed by the
Executive Committee. These plans are then discussed and approved
by the Environmental Committee. Next, the individual responsible
departments involved push ahead with their commitment in accordance
with these plans. The results are scrutinized and evaluated by
the Environmental Committee and fed back to the next targets and
plans to complete the PDCA* cycle at the regional level (Japan,
North America, South America, Europe, Asia/Oceania, and China).
Global issues that are shared worldwide are reported to the World
Environmental Committee and fed back to the Mid-Term Policy Statement.
The hallmark of Honda’s activities is that planning and execution are not left to specially appointed staff, but rather the individual associates in all departments are involved themselves. This is what Honda means when it says, “All members of the Honda organization are individually engaged in a positive commitment to environmental issues as part of their own duties.”
The hallmark of Honda’s activities is that planning and execution are not left to specially appointed staff, but rather the individual associates in all departments are involved themselves. This is what Honda means when it says, “All members of the Honda organization are individually engaged in a positive commitment to environmental issues as part of their own duties.”
* PDCA stands for Plan, Do, Check, Act.
Organization
In December 1991, Honda created its Environmental Committee
to play a central role in addressing environmental issues in Japan.
Subsequently, the organizational framework was extended to North
America, South America, Europe, Asia/Oceania and China. In March
1995, the World Environmental Committee was set up to frame and
promote global plans for our commitment.
In addition, we have created a system to effectively promote our efforts on trans-organizational themes. In this context, we initiated the Green Factory Project1 in 1997 and the LCA Project in 2000. For the Green Factory Project, we changed its name to the Green Factory Promotion Center2 in 2004 as an organization to accelerate environmental activities in the production domain and to promote the Green Factory Plan.
In addition, we have created a system to effectively promote our efforts on trans-organizational themes. In this context, we initiated the Green Factory Project1 in 1997 and the LCA Project in 2000. For the Green Factory Project, we changed its name to the Green Factory Promotion Center2 in 2004 as an organization to accelerate environmental activities in the production domain and to promote the Green Factory Plan.
1. The Green Factory Project was an organization
to promote the Green Factory Plan, with the goal of promoting a
new factory concept for a recycling-based society. Led by this
organization, solutions to issues such as energy-saving and waste
reduction were deployed to our factories throughout the world.
2. The Green Factory Promotion Center oversees environmental activities in the production domain and comprehensively manages and coordinates the environmental measures taken by Honda factories. The Center also serves as a secretariat for environmental audits mutually conducted by Honda factories and checks the individual progress of these factories in the administration of their environmental management system from a company-wide perspective.
2. The Green Factory Promotion Center oversees environmental activities in the production domain and comprehensively manages and coordinates the environmental measures taken by Honda factories. The Center also serves as a secretariat for environmental audits mutually conducted by Honda factories and checks the individual progress of these factories in the administration of their environmental management system from a company-wide perspective.
