● Cost benefits of environmental management measures
The figure below shows the changes in the cost benefits of
measures for climate change mitigation and waste disposal
over the past three years. We compared the costs incurred
in taking measures to mitigate climate change and dispose
waste against the total amount of reductions in payments
related to energy consumption and waste disposal com-pared to the previous year as well as sales of valuables
during the current year. In the table, costs are expressed as
business area costs and benefits as actual benefits.
In FY2012, the costs incurred taking measures to mitigate
climate change were more than the reductions in payments
related to energy consumption. On the other hand, mea-sures to dispose waste brought larger benefits than the
costs incurred taking them.
The major issue to be addressed going forward is how to
overcome two conflicting problems: an increase in emis-sions of environmental pollutants as a result of business ex-pansion and the need for cost reductions. Toshiba Group will
also analyze the cost benefits and other financial aspects of
environmental management measures in more detail.
● Environmental costs and benefits
Total environmental costs decreased by 21% from the previ-ous year to 43 billion yen. Of the different business sections,
the electronic device section accounted for the largest per-centage of total environmental costs, followed by the home
appliance section.
Total investments decreased by 31% from the previous year
to 6.5 billion yen, with environmental investments account-