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 Mid-Term policies developed by the Executive Committee. These plans are then discussed and approved by the Environmental Committee. Next, individualdepartments are responsible for the implementation of these commitments. The results are scrutinized and evaluated by the Environmental Committee and fed back to the development of future 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.”
Environmental Conservation Activities Based on the PDCA Cycle
* 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 initiative. 1. The Green Factory Project was an organization to promote the Green Factory initiative, 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 Honda plants worldwide.
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 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 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.
Organization for Global Environmental Conservation Act.
