Environmental Measures

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Recently, the environmental activities of companies vary from pollution prevention and reductions in greenhouse gases and waste material to compliance with the regulations of chemical substances and hazardous substances contained in products. The Renesas Electronics Group is working to reduce the environmental load from production activities as guided by the common objective of the industry association. We develop and supply environmentally friendly products that help to increase the environmental performance of our customers’ products. The annual policies and objectives of these environmental activities are discussed by the Environmental Promotion Committee, which is chaired by the director in charge of environmental operations, and will be announced to the whole group.

Environmental Policy

We will contribute to the harmonization of society and the environment in the course of our business activities.

Action Guidelines

1. We will incorporate environmental considerations into all stages of the product life cycle, including research & development, design, procurement, production, sales, logistics, use and disposal.
2. We will strive to prevent pollution as well as to minimize the environmental loads. When environmental problems arise, we will take appropriate steps to minimize the environmental loads and disclose accurate information.
3. Our environmental management efforts will involve compliance with all environmental laws, regulations and agreements, and we will promote compliance activities.
4. We will disclose environmental information to stakeholders and encourage communication with society for the purpose of promoting mutual understanding.
5. We will educate all employees in environmental conservation to create a company culture that promotes harmony between the environment and business activities.

Three Environmental Cornerstones of Renesas Electronics

Some of the key issues for our environmental measures are 1) legal compliance, 2) reduction of our environmental loads, 3) the development of ecofriendly products and 4) maintaining good relations with stakeholders.

We are tackling these issues through environmental management, in which all employees participate. Such management is based on an Eco-Management system, built on the cornerstones of our Eco-Factories, Eco-Products and Eco-Communication Initiatives.

Achievements of FY 2018 and targets for FY 2019

Item		Targets for FY 2018	Results of FY 2018	Internal Evaluation	Targets for FY 2019
Eco-Management		Renew the certification of ISO 14001:2015 and management system reinforcement	Updated ISO14001: 2015 certification Amended EMS Guidelines	Well done	Environmental management system reinforcement and maintain ISO 14001 certification
	Eco-Factories Initiative	Reduce 6% or more from benchmark year (Energy consumption per sales)	Reduced 36% from benchmark year (Energy consumption per sales) [Commentary]	Well done	Reduce 7% or more from benchmark year (Energy consumption per sales)
		Reduce the PFC*1 emissions from the results of 2015 (units per wafer area)	Reduced the PFC emissions by 0.031 points from the 2015 emissions (units per wafer area)	Well done	Reduce PFC emissions from the results of 2015 (unit per wafer area)
	Eco-Products Initiative	Address the various domestic and foreign regulations appropriately	Appropriately respond to regulatory revisions Renewal on website (environmental compliance)	Well done	Respond appropriately to various overseas regulations, domestic regulations, and customer requirements Improvement of green device ratio in new mass production products
	Eco-Communication Initiative	Publish an electronic version of the Environmental Report	Web version of PDF environmental report in July	Well done	HTML version environmental report issued
		Provide education for the sales department Provide environmental e-learning	Conducted FY 2018 environmental	Well done	Enhance the materials for position-specific education Implement environmental e-learning
		Continue environmental and social contribution activities	Conduct activities with local residents	Well done	Continue environmental and social contribution activities

*1 PFC : Perfluoro Compounds: (The semiconductor industry has specified CHF₃, CF₄, C₂F₆, C₃F₈, C₄F₈, SF₆ and NF₃ for emissions reduction.)

The Renesas Group addresses and promotes the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Among the 17 goals adopted by the UN Sustainable Development Summit 2015, the Group Environmental Report addresses numbers 3, 4, 6, 7, 9, 11, 12,13, 14, and 15 goals.

Please see the environmental report for details.

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