Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Canon has long understood the importance of preventing global warming. In 1996, even before the adoption of the Kyoto Protocol, we established the Operational Site Energy Efficient Special Committee under the Global Environment Promotion Committee. Since then, we have promoted energy conservation activities across the Group, including developing technologies to prevent global warming, and making improvements to production facilities and air conditioning equipment that consume substantial amounts of energy.
Further, in 2005 we established mid- and long-term goals for the reduction of greenhouse gases for individual products operations. These operations are conducting activities to achieve their targets, working in cooperation with related operational sites.
In 2007, we adopted energy-efficient equipment and devices such as free cooling systems
and turbo refrigerators. To reduce greenhouse gas emissions, we strictly control energy
usage by conducting an energy conservation patrol and using a monitoring system that
controls power consumption by workplace.
