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At Keihin, we began to grapple with environmental issues early on, including developing the carburetor for Honda’s CVCC engine, the first in the world to meet the then-stringent requirements of America's Muskie Act, in 1972.
As well as the explicit commitment to the environment contained in our Environmental Declaration, we have established a Code of Conduct as a guideline for our daily activities. Environmental protection is an important theme in our corporate activities and we continue to make active efforts to contribute to environmental protection and the building of a sustainable society around the globe.
We recognize the deep connection between corporate environmental activities and sustaining a healthy global environment. As a responsible member of society, we will actively strive to protect the global environment by reducing environmental load across the full range of corporate activities.
We will strive to develop and supply products that are environmentally friendly, clean and safe.
We will strive to recycle materials and save energy and resources
at the development, production, and distribution stages of our corporate activities.
As a member of society, we will strive to actively push ahead with international initiatives to preserve the global environment.
As a corporate citizen, Keihin will actively support and cooperate in environmental protection in the local community
and work to achieve the respect of society.
At Keihin, we have established an "Environmental Declaration" setting out the direction of environmental activities, and to guarantee our efforts, environmental activities are carried out under a Company Environment Committee made up of four sub-committees.
This section discusses the structures and roles in environmental initiatives relating to environmental activities.
With our environmental management system as a base, we have established a "Company Environment Committee" to properly grasp trends in Japan and abroad and conduct environmental management at the highest level in the industry. The committee is composed of four sub-committees: Environmental Accounting, Product Environment, LCA, and Manufacturing Environment; each sub-committee has a structure that cuts across departments within the company. Since it is only right to issue bad news as well as news of improvements, the publication of performance results is fundamental to the system.
This committee works to earn public trust by publishing environmental information, and also establishes the cost of environmental protection and improvements.
In response to increasing global environmental needs, this committee pushes constantly to promote the development of environmentally friendly products, and also works to reduce environmental load through conserving resources and energy management.
This committee assesses reductions in all materials and energy used in production of each product and the environmental load of substances such as chemicals and waste materials, and makes reductions to CO2 emissions and improvements to energy efficiency on a per-product basis.
This committee conducts ongoing maintenance and improvement to the environmental management system, and also works to reduce environmental load in the manufacturing process and to expand activities that contribute to the community.