The Canon Sustainability Report is published annually to ensure accountability to Canon stakeholders by informing them of how our global business activities are helping to bring about a sustainable society. The report is also intended to promote two-way communication with stakeholders for the sake of further improving these activities.
The report has been structured to reflect the needs of a broad range of stakeholders and to systematically summarize Canon’s activities in a way that is easy to understand across a wide audience. It is available in both Japanese and English.
In principle, this report covers Canon’s economic, social and environmental activities within the scope of consolidated accounting for the 2006 fiscal year (January 1 to December 31, 2006).
The scope of environmental activities is not limited just to Canon’s on-site business activities (development, production and sales operations), but covers every stage of the lifecycle, including raw material and parts manufacturing by suppliers, as well as product usage by customers. (Details are provided in the Mid-Term Environmental Goals.)
In addition, please see “Operational Sites Covered in the Environmental Section” for a list of activities at operational sites covered in this report. Also, please note that supplemental information on important targets and initiatives prior to fiscal 2005 and beyond fiscal 2007 are also referenced in this report. Any information limited to certain regions or organizations is indicated as such.
Since 2002, Canon has elicited third-party opinions with the help of SustainAbility Ltd. of the United Kingdom in order to improve the objectivity of this report. Included in this year’s report are opinions received from two expert groups, each with a different perspective, so that readers may develop an opinion of Canon and its activities based on comprehensive information.(Link)
Canon welcomes feedback on this report from readers. The thoughts and opinions of readers will be used to enhance future sustainability initiatives. Please feel free to e-mail or fax us your comments using the questionnaire at the end of the report.
(E-mail : eco@web.canon.co.jp, Fax: +81-3-3758-8225)
Data disclosed in past reports has been revised to reflect changes in calculation methods and the expanded scope of sites covered. Accordingly, some of the data in this report differs with the data presented in last year’s report.
