Environmental Initiatives

The Yamaha Group places high priority on the environment, and strives to ensure compliance with both the law and the Yamaha Policy on the Environment. In order to recycle resources and reduce the environmental impact on society as a whole, Yamaha promotes a variety of eco-friendly initiatives that span all stages of the product life cycle, from raw material procurement, development, production and utilization through to disposal.

Environmental Management

In 1994 the Yamaha Group established the Yamaha Policy on the Environment, which sets forth the Group’s basic stance on the environment, and established a group-wide, cross-sectional environmental management organization, in accordance with the Environmental Management Regulations. The Environmental Management Committee, chaired by the Director in Charge of Environmental Matters, meets periodically to discuss and decide important matters such as the Group-wide environmental strategy. The Committee also collaborates with involved organizations at each business site, establishes working groups as needed, and identifies issues and devises environmental policies and measures concerning specific environmental topics. To implement these activities, we introduced ISO 14001 international standards for environmental management systems to achieve compliance with matters required by law and regulation, to mitigate environmental risk, and reduce direct and indirect environmental loads resulting from business activities.

Environmental Accounting

The Yamaha Group introduced environmental accounting in 1999 as a means of quantitatively evaluating the effectiveness of its environmental conservation activities. These environmental accounting practices were then implemented at the Yamaha Group manufacturing companies and resort facilities in Japan, and since fiscal 2004 they have also been implemented at some overseas Group production sites. The Yamaha Group will continue to gradually expand these practices to other overseas Group companies in the future.

Equipment investment refers to investment in factories and equipment made for environmental conservation objectives. The figure is calculated by multiplying the purchase price of individual pieces of equipment by a figure determined by the proportion of the environmental conservation purpose to the whole purpose of the purchase of such equipment (e.g., 0.1, 0.5, 1.0).

Expenses refer to personnel and other costs expended for environmental conservation activities. Personnel expenses are calculated by multiplying the time spent on environmental conservation activities determined by the manager of each department by a common unit cost of personnel expenses set in each company. Costs are determined by multiplying the amounts paid externally by a certain figure calculated using a proportional distribution method as in the case of investment amounts (e.g., 0.1, 0.5, 1.0). Depreciation costs are not included.

Global Warming Countermeasures

Global warming is a serious issue facing the entire human race, and the Yamaha Group considers efforts to solve this problem a priority in business activities.
The Yamaha Group has set a target of reducing CO2 emissions by 6% from the fiscal 1990 level in fiscal 2010, in line with the target the government has set. To date we have actively introduced cogeneration systems, switched from heavy oil to natural gas, adopted photovoltaic power generation systems, and begun using the Green Power Certification System, as well as various other energy-saving facilities and schemes.

Waste Reduction, Recycling and Resource Conservation

The Yamaha Group offers products in a wide variety of categories, including acoustic instruments, electronic and electrical products, automobile interior components, and lifestyle-related products for the home. For this reason, our production processes use a broad range of raw materials and generate various types of waste. For a number of years, we have been taking measures to curb emissions of waste.
Through such initiatives, in May 2005 all six Yamaha Corporation production sites in Japan achieved the target of Zero Emissions.

Management of Chemical Substances

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Environmentally Friendly Products and Services

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Yamaha's Policy on the Environment

Yamaha Material and Component Procurement Policy

Yamaha Timber Procurement and Usage Guidelines

Green Procurement Standards

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