Environmental Accounting

Environmental Accounting

Seeking Better Understanding of Risk Reduction by Converting Relevant Data into Monetary Value, So As to Reflect Intangible Benefits.

Environmental accounting refers to the converted monetary value of benefits derived from the various environmental measures we implement; their investment effectiveness is compared and studied quantitatively. This enables rational decision-making so as to ensure implementation of the most effective environmental measures and comprehensive environmental action that directly links environmental measures with management strategy. The Konica Minolta Group actively implements environmental accounting so as to advance more effective environmental measures, and conducts consolidated global accounting for the entire Group by assigning environmental accounting personnel to each office. We use the obtained environmental accounting results group-wide to develop better environmental measures.

The Konica Minolta Group has established both standards and assessment methods for risk calculation, as well as for economic and environmental protection benefits. In so doing, we have gained a better understanding of the benefits of risk reduction, which can be expressed in monetary terms as “assumed benefits” of the environmental impact reduction obtained by implementing certain measures, as compared to the environmental impact that would be experienced without such measures.

Fiscal 2006: Risk Reduction Benefits

Stage	Measures to Prevent Global Warming	Minimization of Chemical Risks
Measures and activities undertaken in fiscal 2006	Reduction of atmospheric emissions of dichloromethane and methanol	Reduction of CO2 emissions based on Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)
Environmental impact reduction benefits	Atmospheric emissions: Reduction of 22 tons	CO2 emissions: Reduction of 131,564 tons
Risk reduction benefits in monetary units	¥11.8 million	¥1,316 million

Environmental Accounting: Results for Fiscal 2006 and Budget for Fiscal 2007

Types of Environmental Measures		Fiscal 2006 Results				Fiscal 2007 Budget
		Invest -ment costs	Expen -ses	Econo -mic benefits	Risk reduc -tion	Invest -ment costs	Expen -ses
Cost within business domain	Pollution prevention	1,345	1,698	56	113	2,244	2,072
	Global warming prevention	173	414	405	205	243	393
	Resource recycling	395	1,424	10,261	788	850	1,324
Subtotal		1,913	3,536	10,722	1,106	3,337	3,789
Up-/downstream costs		14	5,065	3,562	6	10	3,537
Management costs		52	1,326	0	0	15	1,434
R&D costs		220	2,736	66	328	14	2,747
Social contribution costs		0	14	0	0	0	11
Environmental damage costs		40	609	0	0	501	673
Other costs		0	28	0	0	0	0
Total		2,239	13,314	14,350	1,440	3,877	12,191

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Fiscal 2007 budget does not cover overseas affiliates.

Fiscal 2006 Results: Environmental Protection Benefits

Stage	Type of benefit	Fiscal 2006
Manufac-turing	Reduction in water usage (tons)	260,567
	Reduction in electricity usage (MWh)	14,623
	Reduction in city gas usage (1,000m3)	1,502
	Reduction in heavy oil usage (kl)	130
	Reduction in harmful chemical substances (tons)	33.2
	Reduction in materials usage (tons)	52,142
	External recycling and reuse of waste (tons)	24,069
Sales	Reduction in packaging materials (tons)	324
	Reuse and recycling of used products (tons)	5,209
Use	Reduction in CO2 emissions (tons)	31,437

Fiscal 2006 Results: Customer Benefits

Stage	Type of benefit	Fiscal 2006
Use	Reduction in electricity usage (MWh)	83,167
	Reduction in electricity costs (millions of yen)	1,198

Companies included in fiscal 2006 results

9 Konica Minolta companies
24 Japanese affiliates
18 overseas affiliates

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Companies Included in Fiscal 2006 Results

The nine main Konica Minolta companies

• Konica Minolta Holdings, Inc.
• Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
• Konica Minolta Opto, Inc.
• Konica Minolta Photo Imaging, Inc.
• Konica Minolta Medical & Graphic, Inc.
• Konica Minolta Sensing, Inc.
• Konica Minolta Technology Center, Inc.
• Konica Minolta Business Expert, Inc.
• Konica Minolta IJ Technologies, Inc.

24 Japanese affiliate companies

• Konica Minolta Planetarium Co., Ltd.
• Konica Minolta Supplies Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
• Konica Minolta Printing Solutions Japan Co., Ltd.
• Konica Minolta Supplies Manufacturing Kansai Co., Ltd.
• Konica Minolta Business Solutions Japan Co., Ltd.
• Toyohashi Precision Products Co., Ltd.
• Konica Minolta Electronics Co.,Ltd.
• Konica Minolta Software Laboratory Co., Ltd.
• Konica Minolta Opto Products Co., Ltd.
• Konica Minolta Components Co., Ltd.
• Nankai Optical Co., Ltd.
• Konica Minolta Glass Tech. Co., Ltd.
• Konica Minolta Chemical Co., Ltd.
• Konica Minolta Repro Co., Ltd.
• Konica Minolta Technoproducts Co., Ltd.
• Konica Minolta Medical Co., Ltd.
• Konica Minolta Graphic Imaging Co., Ltd.
• Konica Minolta Medical & Graphic Technosupport Co., Ltd.
• Konica Minolta ID System Co., Ltd.
• Konica Minolta Technosearch Co., Ltd.
• Konica Minolta Engineering Co., Ltd.
• Konica Information Systems Corporation
• Konica Minolta Logistics Co., Ltd.
• Konica Minolta Sogo Services Co., Ltd.

18 overseas affiliate companies

• Konica Minolta Business Technologies Manufacturing (HK) Ltd.
• Konica Minolta Business Solutions (WUHAN) Co., Ltd.
• Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A., Inc.
• Konica Minolta Business Solutions Deutschland GmbH
• Konica Minolta Business Solutions Europe GmbH
• Konica Minolta Supplies Manufacturing U.S.A., Inc.
• Konica Minolta Supplies Manufacturing France S.A.S.
• Konica Minolta Business Solutions Australia Pty. Ltd.
• Konica Minolta Printing Solutions Europe B.V.
• Konica Minolta Business Solutions (Canada) Ltd.
• Develop GmbH
• Konica Minolta Business Technologies (WUXI) Co., Ltd.
• Konica Minolta Business Solutions (UK) Ltd.
• Konica Minolta Opto (DALIAN) Co., Ltd.
• Konica Minolta Optical Products (SHANGHAI) Co., Ltd.
• Konica Minolta Medical Imaging U.S.A., Inc.
• Konica Minolta Graphic Imaging U.S.A., Inc.
• American Litho, Inc.