Environmental Management
Environmental Management Promotion System
The Nidec Group’s environmental management promotion system
Based on Nidec Corporation’s environmental policy, the Nidec Group promotes actions to reduce environmental load and prevent global warming in designing, developing, and producing motors, motor-related products, and solutions that are part of our business.
As a first step, we set 15 themes as critical issues (materiality), which we must tackle preferentially in fulfilling our mission, “We contribute to the Earth by producing the highest quality motors in the world,” and constantly growing our corporate value. In the “Environment” category among them, we uphold the materiality of “sustainable contribution to the global environment,” addressing the three themes of “Realize a carbon-free society,” “Manage waste and hazardous waste,” and “Handle water risks.”
As a system to confirm that these individual activities are implemented effectively, we regularly hold a Sustainability Promotion Meeting, chaired by our company’s President.
Furthermore, there are the following two subcommittees under the Sustainability Promotion Meeting for the entire Nidec Group to promote activities under individual environmental themes:
- (1)Environmental Management Subcommittee
This Subcommittee discusses and examines issues with and solutions to environmental management in general. In particular, the Subcommittee checks progress on environmental load reduction-related activities such as those to reduce the use of water and resources, and promotes improvement actions for more environmentally friendly activities. Energy-related themes are handled by Climate Change Measures Subcommittee. - (2)Climate Change Measures Subcommittee
This Subcommittee shares issues with, solutions to, and successful cases of, energy-saving actions and the introduction of renewable energies, and promotes CO₂ emissions reduction measures that go across all business departments.
Details of the issues discussed in Sustainability Promotion Meeting are submitted to Sustainability Committee, an organ with a majority of Outside Members of Nidec Corporation’s Board of Directors. This Committee confirms the overviews of and resolutions to individual reports, and provides supervision in an objective and expert manner.
Our business bases’ environmental management promotion system
Based on Nidec Corporation’s environmental policy, our company’s individual business bases and subsidiaries uphold policies based on regional environments, and promote environmental education based on the policy. All employees and constituent members of the business bases and subsidiaries understand their environmental policy as they aim to reduce environmental load and prevent global warming.
In addition, our R&D, production and other bases build, maintain, and manage their environmental systems based on ISO14001-based requirements, aiming to improve their environmental consciousness and environmental performance.
*For the current status of ISO14001 certification, please refer here.
