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NEC Group Environmental Management Action Plan 2017/2030

To contribute on the environmental front to realizing "an information society friendly to humans and the earth," as stated in the NEC Group Vision 2017, NEC has formulated an action plan based on three key perspectives—low carbon, ecosystem and biodiversity preservation, and resource recycling and conservation.

Low Carbon

NEC has set a goal of helping to reduce the CO₂ emissions of society as a whole through IT solutions.
Specifically, NEC will enhance solutions that guide society as a whole towards becoming "entirely eco-friendly" with respect to work, mobility and lifestyle.
In fiscal 2010, NEC drafted an Environmental Business Concept* to unveil its approach to making customer operations and society as a whole "entirely eco-friendly," including developing "entirely eco-friendly" offices and data centers.
In making offices "entirely ecofriendly," for example, through relatively easy tasks such as switching to low-power ICT devices and lighting, NEC is sparking awareness of energy-efficiency among users by making energy consumption more visible, and utilizing Web conferences and telecommuting from home offices to achieve paperless operations and enhanced productivity.
In these and other ways, NEC will offer comprehensive support for making offices more energy efficient, thereby contributing to lower emissions by customers.

Entirely Eco-Friendly Offices"Entirely Eco-Friendly" Offices

In this way, "through ICT, NEC will guide society so as to make it friendly to humans and the earth." In other words, NEC is reassessing current businesses and operations from an environmental perspective. Through the use of ICT, the Company seeks to encourage a change in awareness while raising productivity and energy efficiency by eliminating waste, with the aim of making a well-rounded contribution to reducing CO₂ emissions for customers and society as a whole across a variety of fields. Additionally, NEC is providing lithium ion batteries for electric vehicles and utilizing those same batteries to develop power storage systems and smart grids.
Through the delivery of these "completely ecofriendly" solutions and the expanded provision of lithium-ion batteries, NEC aims to help reduce CO₂ emissions by 15 million tons in fiscal 2018, and 50 million tons in fiscal 2031.
Furthermore, NEC has established improvement targets for the energy efficiency of its products to reduce CO₂ emissions at the product usage stage. To ensure that all products enter the top class of energy saving products, NEC is targeting an 80% reduction in power consumption of all products in fiscal 2018, compared with fiscal 2006, and a 90% reduction in the same in fiscal 2031.
The entire NEC Group is working in unison to reach these objectives, and from fiscal 2011 will adopt "carbon statistics" as a mechanism for the shared management of progress in this area. This metric will entail making overall year-to-year changes in CO₂ emissions from all business activities and contributions to carbon reductions more visible, both at the individual Group company and organizational levels. It will also mean raising awareness across the organization and among individual employees, and promoting carbon reductions in order to lower total CO₂ emissions.

Ecosystem and Biodiversity Preservation

In tandem with efforts to minimize negative environmental impacts stemming from business activities and employee lifestyles, NEC will offer remote sensing technology and solutions that contribute to the preservation of ecosystems and biodiversity. These include remote sensing technology from manmade satellites in orbit and wireless sensor terminals for monitoring natural ecosystems. This approach has been codified as the NEC Group Action Guidelines on Biodiversity, and will be promoted across the entire NEC Group.

Resource Recycling and Conservation

Actions taken by the NEC Group to date have yielded impressive results, including the achievement of zero emissions. Eyeing the transition from fossil resources to renewable resources, NEC aims to use bio-plastics in all major products in 2017.