Environmental Performance
Environmental Performance 2014
Overall Picture of Environmental Burden
A major part of greenhouse gas emissions generated by our business activities is derived from electricity and fuel consumption; therefore, the key element in reducing our greenhouse gas emissions is to improve energy use efficiency at production sites.
Fourth Mid-Term Environmental Conservation Plan and Results
Nidec has established three-year mid-term environmental conservation plans since FY2004, and has achieved a certain degree of success. Since FY2013, we have been working based on the fourth mid-term environmental conservation plan. For the four areas for reducing environmental impact (out of the total of seven areas covered by the plan), business sites are categorized into non-production and production sites, and the goal is to reduce the three year average by 3%, on an intensity basis, from the base year FY2012 levels. The number of companies covered by the fourth mid-term environmental conservation plan has increased significantly. This is because Nidec Group subsidiaries (headquartered in Japan) which were incorporated into the Group via M&A were added to the plan together with Group companies covered in the past three mid-term environmental conservation plans.
