Environmental Management

Organizational Structures for Promoting Environmental
Management

Within the Yamaha Motor group, the Environment Committee is positioned as a central organization in the implementation of domestic and overseas environmental initiatives and receives counsel from corporate officers who are responsible for those initiatives. The Committee deliberates on policies and visions for the future concerning environmental initiatives, medium- and long-term environmental policies, strategic investment proposals relating to environmental preservation, environmental monitoring topics and responses to issues, and other key issues relating to environmental management.

Environmental Management Systems

YEMCS certification

The Yamaha Motor group revised its policies concerning the environmental management systems (EMS) used to carry out environmental initiatives throughout the group in 2010 to require each group company to establish systems tailored to its own corporate structure with the aim of achieving more efficient and more effective operation.
As of the end of December 2010, 45 group companies had received ISO 14001 certification, and five group companies were certified under the Yamaha Motor Group Environmental Management Certification System (YEMCS).

Global Environmental Information Network System (G-YECOS)

The Yamaha Motor group uses an original Global Environmental Information Network System known as G-YECOS to share information relating to ISO 14001 environmental management systems and environmental performance, examples of environmental programs, and so forth with the aim of raising the level of environmental initiatives throughout the group.
By introducing G-YECOS, domestic and overseas group companies can share information with the parent company as well as with other group companies to learn about the application of environmental laws in other countries and the results of environmental monitoring, leading to more effective environmental initiatives.
As of the end of December 2010, G-YECOS was in operation at 74 companies.

Internal Environmental Audits

A skills-enhancement training course conducted by an outside instructor

Yamaha Motor's environmental audits include internal environmental audits conducted by internal auditors in accordance with ISO 14001 standards and external inspections. In fiscal 2010, Yamaha Motor had 171 internal environmental auditors. Skills-enhancement training was conducted in the second half for 100 persons ranging from interns to highly experienced auditors. Actual issues identified during the internal audits conducted in June and July were used as subject matter and information on indications made during the audits was shared. Yamaha Motor will continue its periodic efforts to raise the skills of auditors and will conduct more efficient and more effective environmental audits.

Note: The number of internal environmental auditors in 2009 included 80 internal auditors from the integration of Yamaha Marine and ISO organizations and 41 interns who passed a development training program.

Environmental Management Costs

Yamaha Motor discloses quantitative information concerning its environmental preservation measures and calculates environmental costs and the effects of these costs based on the Environmental Accounting Guidelines of Japan's Ministry of the Environment (2005 edition) so it can conduct more effective environmental management. In 2010, total environmental costs including capital investment and operating costs were approximately 8.7 billion yen, an increase of around 14% from the previous year. Global preservation costs, resource recycling costs, management costs, and R&D costs increased, while all other cost categories fell.
* The scope of environmental accounting calculations includes Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. and one manufacturing company.

Unit: million yen. Individual figures may not add up to the total because of rounding.