On July 1st, Toshiba Corporation's Semiconductor Company and Storage Products Company consolidated to form Semiconductor & Storage Products Company.This page describes previous Semiconductor Company's environmental activities.
Environmental Management
New vision of the ideal situation in 2050
People leading rich lifestyles in harmony with the Earth - this is the ideal situation envisaged for 2050 as per Toshiba Group Environmental Vision 2050. Under this vision, we attempt to forecast the situation of the world in 2050 with respect to population expansion, economic development in developing countries and the amount of associated CO2 emissions, and estimate what target values for products and business processes we need to achieve in the medium to long term in order to preserve the quality of life for all (Note 1).
Throughout the entire Toshiba Group, we have decided to conduct our efforts with the aim of achieving an environmental efficiency improvement factor (Note 2) of 2.3 by 2012, the final year of the Toshiba Group's 4th Voluntary Plan for the Environment. We envisage this factor to be 5 in 2025, the midterm year, and to be 10 by 2050.
The Semiconductor Company Group believes that it is incumbent on a “corporate citizen of planet Earth” to endeavor for further mitigation of environmental impact and to create new, rich values. We are striving to realize this vision.
- (Note 1): For more details on the Toshiba Environmental Vision 2050, please refer to our website at http://www.toshiba.co.jp/env/en/management/vision2050.htm
- (Note 2): This factor is the index which evaluates both increases in product value and reductions in environmental impact of new and old products/services at the same time, compared to the baseline year 2000.
We calculate this factor by comparison of environmental efficiencies (product performance divided by environmental impact) between new and old products/services. For more details, please refer to "Reduction of Environmental Impact of Products".
On July 1st, Toshiba Corporation's Semiconductor Company and Storage Products Company consolidated to form Semiconductor & Storage Products Company.This page describes previous Semiconductor Company's environmental activities.