Environmental Management System

The Fujitsu Group has created an environmental management system (EMS) based on the ISO14001 standard. With this system, the group is moving forward with unified efforts to promote environmental improvement activities.

EMS Implementation and Operational Status

Fujitsu Group's Environmental Management

We have constructed an environmental management system (EMS) based on the ISO 14001 international standard and are promoting environmental improvement activities across the group. After acquiring ISO 14001 certification for our Japanese consolidated subsidiaries at the end of FY 2004, we expanded this effort to include our overseas subsidiaries and acquired global integrated certification in FY 2005.

By constructing an EMS along with a supply chain spreading across the globe, we have further strengthened our global governance. This also allows us to promote even more efficient and highly effective environmental activities; not only grasping our status of achievement of the Fujitsu Group Environmental Protection Program (Stage VI), but also collecting a wide variety of information from all Group companies such as legal compliance emergency response and environmental communication activities.

EMS Implementation and Operational Status

We have, as of the end of FY 2010, acquired global integrated ISO 14001 certification for a total of 103 companies, including Fujitsu itself, 90 Group companies in Japan and 12 in overseas. In addition, our 25 overseas companies which are not production base sites are constructing and operating an EMS in line with Fujitsu Group environmental policies. In this way, we have established an environmental management structure across the whole group.

Fujitsu establishes EMS based on a matrix structure composed of a "line program" which promotes activities associated with ownbusiness features and a "site program" which promote activities to tackle site-based issues. This ensures rapid response to top management's decision-making.

Environmental Promotion Structure

The final decisions on environmental management are taken at meetings of the Management Council, chaired by the president. Fujitsu has two directly controlled organizations under the Management Council. One is the Environmental Committee, which reports to the Management Council and controls a wide variety of discussions related to improvements in the Environmental Protection Program, EMS systems and so forth. The other one is the Low Carbon Committee, which is made up of executives from business groups and studies companywide policies such as emissions reductions associated with business activities for global warming prevention.

The Environmental Committee sets up subcommittees to handle specific environmental issues by people from across business groups and units. In FY 2010, we inaugurated the Leading-Edge Green R&D Committee as a new subcommittee to strengthen R&D on revolutionary green ICT that will contribute to achieving a low-carbon society. This new committee promotes the development of leading-edge technologies that will boost the efficiency of ICT products and improve the environmental load reduction effects of solutions.

The Environmental Committee's deliberations are shared with the whole group and we have created a Global Environment Management Working Group (WG) under the Green Management Committee as an organization to strengthen our EMS activities through promoting an understanding of the results of the committee to encourage proactive actions. In the Global Environment Management WG, we assemble people from across the various business groups and inform them of items that we request be handled by the various divisions and group companies to unify our global information sharing.

The Line / Site Matrix Organization

The Fujitsu Group carries out its environmental management along the same framework lines as its corporate management. To this end, we are pursuing environmental management within a matrix organization combining (1) "line activities" directly tied to the business operations of various divisions and companies (including Super Green Product development and the development and sales expansion of Environmentally Conscious Solutions) and (2) "site activities" to tackle common themes affecting each factory or business location (such as energy conservation and waste reduction).
In this way, we seek to bolster our efforts to reduce the environmental burden of our business activities with further reductions of that burden implemented in our sales of products and services.

BU Environmental Activities Councils Go Into Action

In the Environmental Protection Program (Stage V), Fujitsu has specified strengthening the environmental programs of its main businesses.

Moving towards practical implementation, it was decided in the FY 2007 management review to promote a shift toward more autonomous environmental activities.
BU Environmental Activities Councils, attended by the senior managers of the BUs under the control of each business group, were set up at the BU level for this purpose. This has made the BUs the key stakeholders and has enabled them to implement environmental programs tailored to their particular operations (both products and services), strengthening their activities not only at the site (factory or office) level but also at the line (business) level.

In fiscal 2009, we continued to hold councils for product BUs that create a significant environmental burden, and also for solutions BUs. We will further strengthen our environmental programs by tailoring them to the characteristics of each specific business.

Promoting the Fujitsu Group Environmental Protection Program (Stage VI) Globally

In FY 2010, as the first year of the Fujitsu Group Environmental Protection Program, we announced the program through our lines, sites and factories thoroughly. In addition, we held joint briefing sessions for environmental management controllers from group companies at eleven locations in Japan. We also created opportunities overseas to explain the program directly to local managers and environmental supervisors from 29 companies in four areas (the Americas, Asia/Pacifi c, China, and Europe) In the sessions we communicate all targets of the program while emphasizing the need to benefit customers and society, pursue internal reforms and conserve biodiversity.

In addition to promoting the Environmental Protection Program, by having each company make an effort to enhance the Fujitsu Group integrated environmental management system, Fujitsu strengthens its global environmental management system.

Continuous Improvements to the Environmental Management System

Constructing Smart EMS

Fujitsu has developed original environmental management tools such as Global Environment Database System and ISO 14001 Green Management System. The Global Environment Database System enables us to consolidate a wide variety of information such as plan, performance and measures of environmental load. And ISO 14001 Green Management System consolidates risk and environmental information such as compliance to enhance and visualize our environmental management. Also, we use Join Meeting^*1 for remote communication in EMS operation.

*1 A web-based conferencing system

Efforts to Improve Environmental Performance

We have been working on creating a system to evaluate the status of target achievement, compliance and operational management to improve our environmental performance at factories.

We continuously make efforts to strengthen environmental governance by promoting the Environmental Protection Program (Stage VI), adopting ICT for smart EMS construction, and forming systems to improve environmental performance.