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4th Action Plan (FY2007 - FY2011)

We have outlined our Fourth Environmental Action Plan. The plan contains our initiatives for sustainable management, and is to be implemented in the five-year period from FY2007 through FY2011.

The Fourth Environmental Action Plan establishes targets for both product and production areas, in response to the growing urgency posed by environmental issues. Implementation items relating to these target values fall under the following four themes, which are intricately related to every aspect of the business operations of the Toyota Industries Group:
(1) Curbing global warming
(2) Using resources more efficiently
(3) Reducing environmental risk factors
(4) Consolidated management

* “FY 2007” refers to the fiscal year ending on March 31, 2007, and all other fiscal years are referred to in a corresponding manner in the Corporate Citizenship page.

Key Points of the Fourth Environmental Action Plan

(1)Curbing global warming Products Develop products with superior environmental efficiency (= Product value / environmental impact)
Set new indicators showing the environmental efficiency in terms of product value versus carbon dioxide emissions throughout product lifecycles.
Production Reduce emissions of greenhouse gases for all production activities
Take action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, not only carbon dioxide from energy use, but fluorocarbons and carbon dioxide produced as a result of logistics operations
(2)Using resources more efficiently Products Enhance resource productivity
Improve recyclability for all product lines, and promote recyclable designs
Production Reduce external waste materials
Not only reduce waste materials, but take action at the source by improving yields and other measures to reduce external waste materials
(3)Reducing environmental risk factors Products Globally eliminate the use of 4 substances of concern for all product lines
Implement independent, global initiatives aimed at automobile-related products covered by the EU's end-of-life vehicle directive, as well as at industrial vehicles and textile machinery.
Production Reduce the use of substances of concern in every area of business
Implement, in cooperation with consolidated companies, environmental risk evaluation at the business planning stage and incorporate countermeasures aimed at reduction of substances of concern.
(4)Consolidated management Products/
Production		 Promote green procurement at group companies both in Japan and overseas
Newly establish consolidated targets that include group companies both in Japan and overseas.

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