Based on the Mid-Term Environmental Goals, the entire Group is working to lower its environmental burden at Canon’s worldwide bases.
Companies must promote environmental management to contribute to a society where sustainable development is possible. Canon’s environmental management aims to maximize resource efficiency and sets concrete goals under overriding indicator Factor 2 in its Vision for 2010. To this end, we have built an environmental management system (shown in the diagram below) and are raising the level and efficiency of all our environmental assurance activities, in addition to pursuing specific targets.
Under environmentally conscious management, we follow the Plan-Do-Check-Act cycle: we carry out environmental assurance activities (Do) through our Mid-Term Environmental Goals (Plan), which are reflected in our business targets; we also implement the Environmental Evaluation System (Check) to assess performance and then work to improve and enhance our environmental assurance activities (Act).
By linking this PDCA cycle to the activities of the Company’s operating segments (the operational sites of the Company’s operating segments and Group companies), we can accelerate the environmental assurance activities of the entire Group.
Canon’s Environmentally Conscious Management System
