Manabu Hirano
Environmental Strategy Office, Hitachi, Ltd.
Takashi Masui
Corporate Planning & Development Office, Hitachi, Ltd.
Miki Yoshida
Total Solutions Div., Hitachi, Ltd.
Naofumi Sakamoto
Energy & Environment Gr., Second Research Dept., Hitachi Research Institute
Sachio Maekawa
Energy Environment Gr., Second Research Dept., Hitachi Research Institute
The warning bell has clearly sounded on global warming and other environmental concerns with the publication in November 2007 of the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the World Energy Outlook 2007 report of the International Energy Agency, and addressing these global concerns has become an urgent worldwide concern. For its part, the Hitachi Group has drafted Environmental Vision 2025, a comprehensive plan detailing environmental management and environmental business strategies for grappling with the environmental situation in the years ahead. Here we describe how the longer term Environmental Vision 2025 plan is related to the medium-term Environmental Vision 2015 plan that is centered around the concept of emission neutrality and currently under way, and highlights some of the policy initiatives for implementing the Environmental Vision 2025 plan.
climate change, global warming prevention
