Information Disclosure and Engaging in Dialogue

Communication and dialogue with stakeholders through reports and the Internet

Disclosure on Environmental Activities

Hitachi has annually published a report that discloses the policies underlying our environmental activities, the content and results of our efforts, and our plans. From 1998 through 2004, this publication was called the Hitachi Environmental Report. From 2005 to 2008, we expanded the content to include our corporate social contribution and responsibility by publishing a CSR report.
In 2009, however, we are separately publishing an environmental sustainability report. This report contains the environmental information requested by stakeholders, including our policies and data on the environmental burden that our operations impose in different regions of the world: Europe, the Americas, China, and the rest of Asia.
In addition, our Web site has information—in easy-tounderstand articles and interviews—not just on our corporate environmental activities, but also on how each location handles environmental concerns and how we develop energy-saving products. We are constantly working to expand and update the information. We have been awarded the Environmental Goo Grand Prize 2008 in the corporate category in recognition of our excellence in publishing Web-based information on environmental protection and our social contribution.

• Environmental reports published by Hitachi Group companies and production facilities

• page top

Participation at Exhibitions

The Hitachi Group participates in exhibitions in Japan and around the world to publicize the Group’s environmental activities and the strong eco-consciousness of Hitachi technologies and products.

• List of environmental exhibitions

• page top

Dialogue with Stakeholders

Through dialogue with stakeholders, we try to deepen their understanding of our environmental activities, while creating opportunities to listen to requests and concerns.
In a dialogue meeting with stakeholders held in New York in March 2009, we participated in a global debate and exchanged wide-ranging opinions on global environmental strategies, focusing on our activities to realize our environmental vision. In these discussions, stakeholders asked us to “provide easy-to-understand explanations of environmental management, product standards, and measuring methods,” to “actively disclose globally integrated environmental data,” and to “apply Hitachi solutions to environmental issues that should be given high priority.”
In the future, we will disclose more of this information in this report. We intend to help solve environmental problems, reduce the burden imposed on the environment through monozukuri manufacturing, and intensify our environmental activities.

• page top