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| Environmental conservation measures are required all over the world. Honda is implementing speedy and effective environmental conservation measures by establishing and expanding the system for conducting these activities all over the world, including the establishment of the World Environmental Committee and the launch of projects based on specific themes. |
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Environmental conservation can be said to be one of the most
important management objectives for a company to continue sustainable corporate
activities in the future. Honda announced its Honda Environment Statement in 1992
to clearly demonstrate the direction of its ongoing environmental activities,
and improved and expanded its organizational structure towards the achievement
of the goals cited in the Statement.
Before the announcement of the Environment
Statement, the company established an Environmental Committee in 1991, as a body
that would take the central role in corporate environmental activities. The organization
was subsequently expanded for environmental conservation in the Americas, Europe,
Asia, and Oceania.
In 1995, the World Environmental Committee was established
to plan and implement worldwide environmental conservation activities. In 1999,
the Committee was given a position equal to the Executive Committee, which enabled
the company to make management decisions more speedily and more globally in the
environmental field. |
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Within Japan, the Japan Environmental Committee sets the company’s
environmental goals and policies for the company to conduct more sophisticated
environmental conservation activities. These goals and policies are set according
to the situations of each department and coordinated for the entire company to
maintain and improve its environmental performance through the lifecycles of its
products. Also, we have a system to implement projects for specific environmental
themes on a company-wide scale. For example, in 1997, we launched the Green Factory
Project to respond to recycling-based society initiatives and the New Recycle
Project to promote recycling activities for the circulatory use of resources.
In 2000, we started the LCA Project to further analyze and quantify the various
environmental impacts caused by our activities. As for the Green Factory Project, we established the Green Factory Promotion Center in 2004 to accelerate our environmental measures in the production domain and have since been promoting the Green Factory Plan.
* The New Recycle Project was successfully ended in 2003, after fulfilling its role by promoting recycling activities in each of the business domains. |
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At Honda, environmental activities are conducted as follows:
First, the Executive Committee decides upon midium-term environmental policies,
based on which each department makes their own plans. The Environmental Committee
discusses and approves the plans and then each department subsequently conducts
environmental activities based on the approved plans. The results are then examined
and evaluated by the Environmental Committee. Their evaluations can then be
reflected in the formulation of the next goals and plans. Their evaluations can then be reflected in the formulation of the next goals and plans based on the Plan, Do, Check, and Act (PDCA) cycle, and following this cycle, the departments conduct environmental protection activities on a continual basis across the world.
As for themes to be tackled across the world, activities conducted on the themes are reported to the World Environmental Committee, which incorporates the examination results of the activities in its medium-term policies. Honda’s environmental protection activities are unique in that they are not planned and implemented by the staff dedicated to the activities but by each and every member of every department under their own initiative. This is based on the idea that all Honda employees should be proactively engaged in environmental activities as part of their regular duties. |
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