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October 2, 2002
Fujitsu General Limited
Public Relations Division
Fiscal 2001 Environmental Accounting Results
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Our company introduced environmental accounting in fiscal 1999 to
provide quantitative assessments of the costs and effects of environmental
protection activities.
As a result of collecting the actual results of Fujitsu General
Limited and 13 main affiliated companies in Japan and overseas,
the total cost for the environmental protection was approximately
1.4 billion yen while the effect through the environmental protection
measures was approximately 1.7 billion yen. |
| 1.Calculation method of environmental accounting |
The fiscal 2001 environmental accounting of our company was calculated
in accordance with the "Environmental Accounting Guidelines 2002"
of Japan's Ministry of the Environment with regard to the criteria
and classification of the environmental protection cost and with
addition of our own criteria. As a result, the following changes
have been made in the cost calculation method.
With respect to the environmental protection cost, the calculation
of depreciation was made by changing the method to the calculation
according to the number of depreciation months for the fiscal year
based on the depreciation expense per month in fiscal 2001 for enhancing
the accuracy, although the calculation was made based on the fixed
amount of 5 year write-off in fiscal 2000, so that the cost by investment
may be matched with the period of accrued effect.
In the field of economic effect through environmental protection
measures, the effect continuation period of substantial effect has
been changed. In fiscal 2000, the period for the items created by
capital investment was 3 years but it was changed to 5 years in
fiscal 2001. Also, the period for the items created by the measures
not through capital investment was 1 year in fiscal 2000 but it
was changed and unified to 5 years in fiscal 2001 as the average
period of technological innovation was reviewed.
As regards to economic effect, the profit and cost reduction through
environmental protection measures as "substantial effects" are stated.
In addition, "supposed effect" for contributing to the continuous
improvement of corporate profit through environmental protection
activities and corporate image enhancement and "risk avoidance effect"
through pollution prevention measures are stated. |
| 2.Environmental protection costs |
The outline of the environmental protection cost in fiscal 2001
is as follows:
- The "management activity cost" has considerably decreased
to 39% over last year as a result of the integration on environmental
management system (ISO14001) between the head office and 5 domestic
manufacturing subsidiaries aiming at the efficient operation
of environmental management activities as an environmentally
advanced corporate.
- The stress has been focused on the development of environmentally-friendly
products, such as the development of energy saving models of
refrigerators, air conditioners and resource saving models of
audio-visual equipment, and the "R&D cost" has been kept nearly
equal to last year (102%) and the continuous research and development
are progressing.
- As a result of having had positively tackled the pollution
prevention, ozone layer protection measures and global worming
suppression up until fiscal 2000, the main environmental investments
have wound up, so that out of the costs in business operations,
the "pollution cost" and "global environmental protection cost"
decreased to 59% and 78% respectively over last year.
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| 3.Economic effects through environmental protection measure |
The following main economic effects have been acquired through the
environmental protection measures as "supposed effect".
- The effects of facility maintenance management of electric
household appliance recycling business (by Fuji Ecocycle Ltd.),
which started in full scale last year, have been additionally
stated.
- The economic effects have increased to 153% over last year
by efficient maintenance management activity through the integration
on ISO14001 between the head office and 5 domestic manufacturing
subsidiaries.
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| 4.Environmental protection effects |
Environmental protection effects are shown by reduction of the energy
used in business operations through environmental measures and recycled
volume of valuables. |
We will further strengthen the environmental activities making use
of the results of costs and effects of environmental accounting
by department.
We will also make efforts to develop the environmentally-friendly
products and promote environmental harmonization in global market
utilizing the technical know-how acquired by technical departments
in addition to the accumulated technology through the electric household
appliance recycling business started in full scale in April last
year.
With regard to the environmental accounting, we will further review
the calculation standard and endeavor to disclose information of
the achievement through environmental activities while aiming to
enrich the contents and enhance the accuracy. |
| (Reference Material) |
| Results
of Costs and Effects |
| 1.Environmental protection
costs |
(Unit: Million
Yen) |
| Item |
Cost |
Year-to-year |
1) Costs in business operations
(Environmental protection costs for suppressing environmental
load generated in business operations by manufacturing and
service activities)
(1)Pollution protection costs
(2)Environmental protection costs
(3)Resource recycling costs |
683
62
356
265
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88%
57%
78%
127%
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2) Upstream/downstream costs
(Costs of lowering upstream/downstream environmental burden
of manufacturing and service activities) |
252 |
175% |
3) Management activity costs
(Management-related environmental protection costs) |
75 |
39% |
4) R/D costs
(Environmental protection costs for R/D activities) |
367 |
102% |
5) Social activities costs
(Environmental protection costs for social activities) |
13 |
118% |
6) Environmental clean-up costs
(Costs of environmental clean-up operations) |
18 |
138% |
| Total |
1,408 |
94% |
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| 2.Economic effects
through environmental protection measures |
(Unit: Million
Yen) |
| Item |
Contents |
Effect |
| 1) Reduction effect/Sales of valuables |
Reduction of paper, water, energy, waste/sales
profit |
147 |
| 2) Reduction of materials for production |
Reduction of materials by energy- saving design |
556 |
| Others |
365 |
| 3) Supposed effect |
Effects by proper maintenance management of
environmental protection facilities |
78 |
| Others |
178 |
| 4)Risk avoidance effect |
Avoidance of operation loss of offices due to
non-compliance of laws and regulations |
408 |
| Total |
1,732 |
| 3.Trends of
environmental protection costs and economic effects |
(Unit:
Million Yen) |
| Fiscal year |
Amount |
1) Trends in costs
FY2001
FY2000
FY1999
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1,408
1,499
1,105 |
2) Trends in economic effects
FY2001
FY2000
FY1999 |
1,732
1,838
1,477 |
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| 4.Environmental protection
effects |
| Item |
Effect |
1) Reduction in use
(1) Reduction in paper use
(2) Reduction in water use
(3) Reduction in electricity use
(4) Reduction in LPG use
(5) Reduction in heavy oil use
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5t
3,750m3
404 MWh
2t
10m3 |
2) Recycling
(1) Recycling of copper
(2) Recycling of aluminum
(3) Recycling of iron
(4) Recycling of paper
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92t
178t
2,514t
335t |
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