The Olympus Group is steadily proceeding with its environmental program, backed by the diligent efforts of its employees. We are reinforcing compliance with environmental regulations, creating smaller and lighter Olympus Ecoproducts that consume less energy, and are using less energy and water at our company facilities. For many years, our facilities worldwide have been cooperating with local communities in a wide range of activities aimed at conservation and other green purposes. These activities have been highly rated by the CDP (Note 2), a respected program that promotes responsible global investing.
This year, our Environment Month theme is “Everyone joining in to help society and the environment.” It is important that everyone becomes personally involved in sustainable activities to correct environmental problems, because this is directly related to our “Social IN” philosophy (“IN” stands for “INvolvement in harmonizing with the environment and contributing to society”).