Environmental Management

Environmental Management Promotion Organization

The Furukawa Electric Group has established the Central Committee for Environmental Management. The Committee, which is headed by the Chief Social Responsibility Officer (CSRO) and answers directly to the President, is convened four times annually to formulate the environmental management targets for the entire Group and follow up on their status.

The key measure for the prevention of global warming is the reduction of CO₂ emissions. Therefore, we have established the Committee for Reduction of GHG Emissions and the Working Group for Reducing GHG Emissions under the auspices of the Central Committee for Environmental Management. We have also created the Working Group for the Promotion of Environmental Performance Indices, which uses life-cycle assessments (LCA) to make product CO₂ emissions visible.

Also, in April 2011 we consolidated the bi-annual Liaison Meeting of Consolidated Environmental Management for affiliates and the Committee for Consolidated Environmental and Green Product Management to form the Group Environmental Committee. This Committee meets quarterly to conduct target management and share information, with the goal of integrating and strengthening activities for unifying Group targets.

Each of Furukawa Electric's seven manufacturing Works and all of our domestic affiliates that participate in consolidated environmental management are in the process of acquiring ISO14001 international environmental management certification. Our overseas affiliates are also proceeding to collect data and construct management systems under the guidance of their controlling companies and business divisions.

Environmental management promotion organization

Anti-Global Warming Award

In recognition of the importance of environmentally sound business practices, we promote global warming initiatives by presenting awards for the best of the efforts made among the business divisions. There was little change in the amount of investment expenditure or the scale of the initiatives, and we continued to execute a variety of activities on a continuous planned basis. We put out a call for superior results among the companies, business departments, manufacturing departments, worksites, project teams, etc. in the following five categories: 1. Technology development; 2. Introduction of anti-global warming technology; 3. Practical measures; 4. Environmental education / awareness promotion; 5. Global contribution. The Environmental Award Examination Committee quantifies the results for those activities over the most recent one-year period as a rule, and determines the recipients of the Superior Excellence Award, the Excellence Award, and Strong Effort Award while also considering degree of difficulty and sustainability.

There were eight entrants in fiscal 2012, with two granted the Excellence Award and two the Strong Effort Award. The award ceremony was conducted in July.