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Mid-Term Environmental Plan

Product-Related Items (FY 2011 Results)

(*: Newly added item or modified target item, Underlined: Added or modified points)
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Indicator Items (Total of 5) Mid-Term Targets
Prevention of Global Warming 1 Reducing CO₂ emissions when products are used
  • Average CO₂ emissions reduction rate for all products (Note 1)
 65% or more (reference year: FY 2006)
Environmentally-Sound Products 2 Developing top runner environmental products (Note 2)
  • * Percentage of products registered as Eco Symbol Star products
 20%
3 Making all new products Eco Symbol (Note 3) products
  • Percentage of Eco Symbol products (Note 4) (Applies to all new products developed from FY 2007 Note 5)
 100%
Resource Recycling 4 Promoting use of bioplastics (Note 6) in products
  • Bioplastic [PLA material (Note 7)] usage (Note 8)
 5%
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  • Starting to use bioplastics derived from inedible materials in all model devices
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Indicator To Be Achieved (FY)FY 2011 TargetsFY 2011 ResultsAssessment
Prevention of Global Warming 1 2013 60% 53% Δ
Environmentally-Sound Products 2 2013 10% 17% O
3 FY 2008 and onward 100% 100%
(99.8%)		 O
Resource Recycling 4 2013 Applicable to some products Applicable to 4 product groups O
5 2014 -
 - -

(Note 1) CO₂ emissions calculated taking into account fluctuations in product performance based on device power consumption.
(Note 2) Products that greatly contribute to society by helping to prevent global warming and encourage resource recycling, and that are highly regarded within the company and by the general public.
(Note 3) Products that satisfy NEC's environmentally-sound and Eco Symbol standards, that are innovative, and whose manufacturing process is transparent.
(Note 4) Number of Eco Symbols acquired/Number of new developments in said year x 100(%).
(Note 5) Excluding defense, aerospace, and custom products.
(Note 6) Plastics whose resin component consists of at least 75% of plant-derived resin. (The resin component excludes any safe, inorganic materials in the plastic.)
(Note 7) Polylactic acid (PLA) materials.
(Note 8) Number of product groups using bioplastics/ Number of product groups using plastic for cabinet.