CONTENTSEnvironmental ManagementPromotion of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)

Honda established the Honda LCA Data System in March 2002. Using this system, we set annual CO2 emission reduction targets for each department using CO2 emissions generated by that department in fiscal 2000 as a baseline and promote the PDCA cycle from a quantitative aspect to reduce environmental impact.
In fiscal 2004, each domestic department (manufacturing, purchase, sales/service, and logistics) used the Honda LCA Data System to collect data and calculate CO2 emissions generated by business operations. As a result, compared with fiscal 2003, the number of products manufactured in fiscal 2004 increased by approximately 3% (with the number of products manufactured in fiscal 2000 set at 100), while CO2 emissions were reduced by approximately 1% due to the efforts of our departments in reducing environmental impact.
These results demonstrate that the departments have made improvements in their environmental activities. In addition, carbon intensity per sales revenue has improved year after year since fiscal 2000.
In the future, we will improve the efficiency of data collection and the accuracy of the collected data to steadily reduce our environmental impact.
In fiscal 2005, we plan to expand the use of our life cycle assessment system to quantify our environmental impact in other regions and to conduct activities to reduce such impact.
In addition, we will improve the level of our data system for product models to achieve higher efficiency of our product LCA and expand the use of this system to currently produced models and models under development.