Established Medium-term Environmental Plan and Environmental Protection Program Stage VIII

Aiming to reduce environmental burden and enhance corporate value through environmental management

Fujitsu General Group newly established the "Medium-term Environmental Plan" with FY2030 as a final target year as follows.

1）: Through "activities for customers and society"; To reduce CO2 emission caused by the use of our products in Japan by 28% by FY2030 (compared to FY2013)
2）: Through "activities for our own environmental burden reduction"; To reduce CO2 emission resulting from business activities of our group as a whole by 30% by FY2030 (compared to FY2013)

In the Paris Agreement adopted in the COP 21 (The 21st session of the Conference of the Parties of United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change) in December, 2015, the framework of global warming measures after 2020 was agreed. Member countries submitted global warming measures, and the environmental regulations by such measures as reduction of greenhouse gas emission will be strengthened.

Fujitsu General Group handling mainly air conditioners which are closely related to global energy issue is considering the promotion of reduction of environmental burden as responsibility in the company continuation leading to our own "strengthening of product power" and "enhancement of management efficiency" and enhancing corporate value.

In this plan, we aim to achieve both reduction of environmental burden and enhancement of corporate value through the development of energy saving products and the environmental management to pursue the resources saving and energy saving in the business activities by setting "activities for customers and society" and "activities for our own environmental burden reduction"
Also, as activities toward the achievement of "Medium-term Environmental Plan" for 3 years from now, the "Environmental Protection Program Stage VIII (FY2016 – 2018) was established. In the "Environmental Protection Program Stage VIII", we will strive for the reduction of CO2 emission caused by the use of products and the improvement of energy consumption efficiency in the manufacturing bases.

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1. Medium-term Environmental Plan

Our company has been establishing the Environmental Protection Program every three years so far, and set the guidelines as future goals in the newly established "Medium-term Environmental Plan. We aim to achieve both reduction of environmental burden and enhancement of corporate value through "strengthening of product power" and "enhancement of management efficiency" by all the employees sharing the goals to be achieved over the medium term.

1)"Activities for customers and society"

To reduce CO2 emission caused by the use of our products in Japan by 28% by FY2030 (compared to FY2013)

We aim to reduce average CO2 emission per set of air conditioner sold and used in Japan by 28% by FY2030 (compared to FY2013). We will contribute to the reduction of environmental burden and strengthen the product power by enhancing the development power of high value-added air conditioners excelling in energy saving performance.We will also strive to reduce the environmental burden in the air conditioners for overseas markets by developing the products further enhancing the energy saving performance.

2)"Activities for our own environmental burden reduction"

To reduce CO2 emission resulting from business activities of our group as a whole by 30% by FY2030 (compared to FY2013)

We aim to reduce CO2 emission in consolidated sales amount unit by 30% by FY2030 through the improvement and reform by reviewing the processes as well as the reduction of wastes latent in all business processes.We will strive to enhance the management efficiency by the reduction of environmental burden and curtailment of expenses through the promotion of resource saving and energy saving in all business processes.

2. Environmental Protection Program Stage VIII

As activities toward the achievement of "Medium-term Environmental Plan" for 3 years from now, the "Environmental Protection Program Stage VIII (FY2016 – 2018)" was established, which we will implement under the environmental management. With regard to the "activities for customers and society" which is one of the goals of "Medium-Term Environmental Plan", we are setting the goals of CO2 emission reduction by 8% (compared to FY2013) in FY2018.

[Main activities]

Category	Goals to achieve by end of FY2018
Measures against global warming	Reduce CO2 emission at time of using products in Japan by 8% compared to FY2013
Measures against global warming	Improve energy consumption efficiency at manufacturing bases by more than 6% compared to FY2013 and product transportation efficiency by 10% compared to FY2013
Resources circulation	Improve recycling rate by enhancing decomposition and sorting ability
Chemical substance management	Strengthen the chemical substance management system in supply chain
Environmental society contribution	Continue the contribution activities centered around local community for each business office

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