Promoting Groupwide Environmental Sustainability Management Centering on PDCA
The Panasonic Group is committed to creating both a better life and a sustainable global environment by fulfilling its social responsibilities through its business activities, and at the same time engages in resolving major issues such as decarbonization of society and resource recycling through its products and services. We are executing our initiative in accordance with the following PDCA under the Group CTO (Tatsuo Ogawa, Executive Officer as of June 2025).
Based on the Environmental Policy, each operating company, under its Autonomous and Responsible Management, sets key environmental KPIs and goals linked to its annual business plans, aiming to fulfill its environmental responsibilities and strengthen its competitiveness in line with common areas within the Group and the characteristics of its business. This common area is the GREEN IMPACT PLAN (GIP), the group's medium- to longterm environmental action plan. [Plan]
Achieving groupwide targets involves collecting monthly, quarterly and yearly business results as environmental performance data, sharing the data within each business division and across the Group and acting to address the various changes in the surrounding environment. [Do]
Annual performance data undergoes independent assurance through a third-party audit, including on-site audits, and is fed back to the Group and disclosed to the public. We apply the opinions and suggestions of our stakeholders in subsequent activities and measures for continuous improvements. [Check]
Since 2021, progress made in the KPIs established under GIP, as well as issues and social trends, are deliberated on by the Sustainability Management Committee. Decisions on important issues are made swiftly at Group Management Meetings consisting of the Group CEO and the presidents of the operating companies. [Action]
Through this process, the long-term environmental vision “Panasonic GREEN IMPACT” was formulated in 2022, and since then, a group-wide PDCA cycle has been implemented.
Furthermore, the “Sustainability Management Project” was launched in 2024 to strengthen coordination in the activities such as information disclosure.
Initiatives on global environmental issues, which are seen as medium- and long-term issues for the entire Group, are becoming increasingly important and urgent each year. In order to accelerate decision-making and action, highly efficient information sharing and coordination across business fields has become vitally important. In addition to specialized committee activities on such as chemical substance control and CO2 reduction at manufacturing factories, the Sustainable Management Consortium, a groupwide community that voluntarily gathered to solve sustainability issues, was established in 2020 (approx. 1100 participants as of June 2025).
With the assumption that the ideas will be applied to their primary tasks, the consortium participants are working to define and incubate various common issues for the Group, shift gears to address these important issues, and accelerate problem-solving by pooling their collective wisdom. The activities of the Consortium platform utilize the expertise of each participant to allow them to coordinate functions and resources across organizational boundaries, improve productivity and act more swiftly.
Structure for Promoting Sustainability Management (as of June 2025)
