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Goal 3 Promoting Global Environmental Protection
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- Developing corporate environmental management groupwide, Anritsu further advances its activities toward the creation of Eco-Office, Eco-Factory and Eco-Products with Eco-Minded Employees.
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- Anritsu quantifies its environmental impact and environmental protection activities in monetary and physical units in order to assess and upgrade the efficiency of these activities.
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- Anritsu is reducing its environmental load in a comprehensive way by strengthening management and reduction of CO2 emissions, waste and harmful substances from offices and factories.
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- Reports on environmental data for each site of the Anritsu Group.
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- Based on the life cycle concept, Anritsu is promoting environmental efforts across the product life cycle.
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- To further reinforce our environmental management, we are applying environmental accounting to accurately grasp, compile and analyze our investment in environmental preservation as well as associated costs. We then incorporate the resulting knowledge about investment impact and cost-benefit performance into management decisions.
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- Within the framework of its Green Procurement Guidelines, Anritsu is working on green procurement to preferentially procure environmentally conscious parts and materials across the company.
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- The history of Anritsu Corporation’s environmental management efforts.
The current power shortages consequent to the Great East Japan Earthquake have challenged us to do more to conserve energy in business operations, product development and supply, which all have a direct impact on the sustainability of society.
The Anritsu Group introduced Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) in its “Green of Products” initiative for reducing the environmental impact of products by conserving energy/resources and reducing harmful substances, and its “Green by Solutions” initiative for directly reducing the environmental impact of customers’ operations. We will intensify these efforts, assess CO2 emissions throughout the product lifecycle and take action where significant reductions are expected.
In addition, we are endeavoring to save power this summer by alternating shutdowns among our buildings and offering employees alternative weekly days off. It is necessary, however, to further raise employee environmental awareness so that we are able to respond to social demand on a mid- and long-term basis. To this end, we will further educate employees through various means and opportunities, encouraging them to always practice energy conservation, at home and at the workplace.
The global environment is becoming an increasingly important business issue. We intend to bolster our efforts and implement environmental management groupwide with a broader perspective that encompasses both business operations and product development.
Environmental Management at Anritsu
The Anritsu Group is pursuing environmental management worldwide by taking into account the entire product lifecycle using the environmental strategy illustrated in the figure. Concretely, we are focusing on four key policies : “Provision of energy/resource-saving products” and “Provision of products with reduced harmful substances” in product development; “Promotion of energy conservation” in our business operations; and “Strengthening of Eco-Mind and environmental communication,” which supports the entire strategy. We will also continue to maintain and improve the efforts of “promotion of 3Rs (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle)” and “reduction of chemical substances and risk countermeasures” in business activities.
In addition, we have established the Basic Rules of Biodiversity Conservation, reflecting due consideration for the relationship between Anritsu’s business structure and biodiversity. We believe implementing these rules will help mitigate climate change, the loss of habitat from overexploitation and pollution.
Basic Policy for Conserving Biodiversity
The business operations of the Anritsu Group benefit and influence the ecosystem supported by diverse organisms at the same time. Preserving the biodiversity which is the foundation of the ecosystem is therefore a vital concern for environmental management. The basic policy of the Anritsu Group is to encourage activities that reduce our environmental impact associated with our business operations and to preserve biodiversity through social contribution efforts that protect the natural environment.
