Business Activities -Production: Energy Conservation / Prevention of Global Warming-

Aiming to lead effective efforts to prevent global warming, the Ricoh Group is working to achieve its mid- to long-term goals of reducing total lifecycle CO₂ emissions by 87.5% by 2050 and 30% by 2020 from the fiscal 2000 level, by employing different approaches suitable for each product category and business area. These goals were set by revising goals from previous years that had been successfully attained. Specifically, Group companies in Japan accomplished the target of reducing total emissions by 12% compared to the fiscal 1990 figure by the end of fiscal 2010─double the 6% reduction goal set out in the Kyoto Protocol─partially by utilizing the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) scheme to offset increases in CO₂ emissions attributable to the Group’s organic and M&A growth and worsening power supply conditions. We also achieved the goal of reducing non-CO₂ greenhouse gases by 10% compared to the fiscal 1995 level by the end of fiscal 2010.
Toward the fiscal 2020 target, we are expanding effective environmental actions to all Group production sites around the world, specifically promoting innovation in the manufacturing process and introducing highly efficient equipment with the intention of keeping our total CO₂ emissions from all production bases in and outside Japan around or below the fiscal 2010 level, while factoring in possible increases due to anticipated business growth.