Konica Minolta launches medium term environmental plan 2016

Konica Minolta has launched its new Medium-Term Environmental Plan 2016 to address environmental challenges and enhance corporate competitiveness. 

The plan 2016 has three themes: Green Products (planning and development); Green Factories (procurement and production) and Green Marketing (distribution, sales and service, and collection and recycling). Each theme has established goals in fiscal 2016 in terms of environmental value and corporate value. For the first time in the company's medium-term environmental plan, goals are set up as a measure of corporate growth (increase in corporate value).

Efforts in both reduction of environmental impact and growth of corporate value have been extended beyond the Konica Minolta Group into collaboration with its upstream suppliers. The company has been turning its environmental expertise into cooperative work with local suppliers and helping them improve their production process and lower environmental impact. In fiscal 2013, these efforts resulted in a total of nearly 1,800 tons of CO2 reduction for the year. 

Furthermore, the Medium-Term Environmental Plan 2016 sets CO2 reduction targets related to procurement in addition to carbon emissions reduction targets for the Group production sites. The Group continues to expand its cooperation with suppliers with the aim of achieving these targets.

The compan's CSR Report 2014 unveils that total carbon emissions associated with the Konica Minolta Group's activities across its entire supply chain, from upstream to downstream of its operations, were approximately 1.4 million tons, which represents a decrease of 6.8% from fiscal 2012.*

*Calculation is basically based on the international standards of GHG Protocol, guidelines for calculating and reporting greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.