Honda Worldwide | Environment

Green Offices

Honda is proactively implementing environmental initiatives at its offices. We will further reduce the environmental impact of our office operations in a coordinated manner. We will also undertake environmental conservation initiatives in all our business operations to make our offices more environmentally responsible as part of our effort to help preserve the global environment.

Coordinated Efforts to Reduce the Environmental Impact of Our Offices

•Administration Targets and Results

	FY2007 Targets^*1	FY2007 Results^*1	FY2008 Targets^*2
CO₂ emissions (CO₂tons)	11,326	11,839 (95.6% attainment)	12,913
Waste (tons)	512	291 (175.9% attainment)	502

*1 Total for four buildings (Aoyama, Wako, Yaesu, Shirako)
*2 Starting in FY2008, in addition to Aoyama, Wako, Shirako and Yaesu, the Sapporo, Sendai, Nagoya, Osaka and Fukuoka buildings will be included.

Our Aoyama Head Office building acquired ISO 14001 certification in November 1999, and we have been working continuously to reduce the environmental impact of all our office operations. The Wako building acquired ISO 14001 in November 2005, shortly after its opening in August 2004. In FY2007 the Aoyama, Wako, Yaesu and Shirako offices worked to reduce energy use and the generation of waste. Total CO₂ emissions for the four facilities were 513 tons, and waste was reduced to 221 tons. In FY2008 Honda's nine offices (Aoyama, Wako, Shirako, Yaesu, Sapporo, Sendai, Nagoya, Osaka and Fukuoka) will be included in a drive to reduce environmental impact and strengthen our overall environmental conservation efforts in the context of Honda's Green Office initiative.

Strengthening of Honda Group Administration Initiatives

Honda Technical College

•Honda Group Targets

	FY2008 Targets
CO₂ emissions (CO₂tons)	38,047
Waste (tons)	2,551

Note: Starting in FY2008, targets and results will be reported for the Honda Group, including not only Honda Motor and its nine buildings (Aoyama, Wako, Shirako, Yaesu, Sapporo, Sendai, Nagoya, Osaka and Fukuoka), but also several companies of the Honda Group in Japan—Mobility Land, Honda Kaihatsu, Honda Sun, Honda Commtec, Honda Technical College, Honda Airways, Honda Trading, Honda Finance, Rainbow Motor School, Kibo no Sato Honda, Honda R&D Sun, KP Tech, Chu-o Air Survey Corp., Circuit Service Creates and Japan Race Promotion—for a total of 16 companies and 25 facilities.

With the growth in awareness of corporate social responsibility, Honda Motor and the 16 companies and 25 facilities of the Honda Group intensified efforts to reduce the environmental impact of their operations in FY2007. Recognizing the importance of conserving the global environment and coexisting harmoniously with communities, we are striving to lead the way in the 21st century with our Green Office initiative. With the participation of Honda Technical College, the Honda Group is contributing even more proactively to raising environmental awareness. A total of 1,460 people have enrolled for the new environmental studies courses offered by the college at its campuses in the Tokyo and Osaka areas.

Use of environmentally responsible low-emissions vehicles as company cars at main facilities

•Use of Japan's government-designated environmentally responsible vehicles

(Non-gasoline vehicles meeting the government's green procurement criteria—see Notes 1-6 below)

•Introduction of Low-Emissions and High Fuel Efficiency Vehicles (gasoline, hybrid, natural gas vehicles)

Note 1: Total vehicles introduced: FY2003 2,247; FY2004 2,609; FY2005 2,543; FY2006 2,865; FY2007 2,796
Note 2: The items in parentheses refers to Japan's government-designated environmentally responsible vehicles
*1 Four vehicles comply with the FY2011 fuel efficiency standards + 5% requirement
*2 15 vehicles comply with the FY2011 fuel efficiency standards + 5% requirement; one vehicle complies with the FY2011 fuel efficiency standards + 10% requirement; two vehicles comply with FY2011 fuel efficiency standards + 20% requirement
*3 10 vehicles comply with the FY2011 fuel efficiency standards + 5% requirement; two vehicles comply with the FY2011 fuel efficiency standards + 10% requirement
*4 58 vehicles comply with the FY2011 fuel efficiency standards + 5% requirement
*5 127 vehicles comply with the FY2011 fuel efficiency standards + 5% requirement, three vehicles comply with the FY2011 fuel efficiency standards + 10%
*6 725 vehicles comply with the FY2011 fuel efficiency standards + 5% requirement; 176 vehicles comply with FY2011 fuel efficiency standards + 10% requirement; 69 vehicles comply with FY2011 fuel efficiency standards + 20% requirement