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Reflecting its belief that the environment is one of the top priorities in its management, Bridgestone formed the Strategic Environment Planning Department in 2010 to develop an environmental strategy that is more closely linked to the company’s management strategy. The Department works closely with the eco-Activities Promotion Department to undertake activities to achieve environmental objectives.
We have also formed the Carbon Management Promotion Unit under the Strategic Environment Planning Department to orchestrate a Group-wide response to the issue of global warming as part of an effort to build a carbon management system capable of systematically reducing CO2 emissions.
The Bridgestone Group pursues a Group-wide environmental management program designed to balance the demands of business and the environment.
The Group’s environmental coordination function (Global Management Platform: GMP) communicates policies and activity directions to individual SBUs, which then undertake environmental activities on an independent basis in accordance with those policies and directions. Environmental activities and environmental data from each SBU are shared and analyzed as part of the Group’s PDCA (“plan,” “do,” “check,” “act”) cycle so that they drive improvements.
The Group has also developed TEAMS (Total Environmental Advanced Management System), an original environmental management system, for facilitating global environmental management structure.
Global environmental management structures
43rd meeting of the Group Environmental Committee (held in October 2011)
The Group Environmental Committee was formed to track progress in the Bridgestone Group’s environmental activities and to determine how the Group will address new issues. The president and CEO joins corporate officers and other committee members in discussions and decision-making related to environmental policies, objectives, and Group responses to important environmental concerns.
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