Canon Inc

Describe the process(es) your organization has in place to ensure that your engagement activities are consistent with your overall climate change strategy[…]The Global Environment Center of Sustainability Headquarters monitors the status of external activities that exert an impact on national policy and climate change strategies as well as the status of direct and indirect cooperative activities conducted by Canon. Through a "Group-linked information-gathering framework,† the Global Environment Center of Sustainability Headquarters analyzes information that it has obtained through industries and supplies the results of that analysis to related internal divisions while simultaneously incorporating those results into the strategies and policies of the Canon Group. When working together with policy planners, the Global Environment Center of Sustainability Headquarters determines strategies and carries out activities based on those strategies while verifying their consistency with the policies of Canon. Product operations divisions decide upon specific actions to take with respect to products based on information from the Global Environment Center of Sustainability Headquarters as well as their own marketing information. All of these activities are reported to by the Senior General Manager of the Global Environment Center to the Executive Officer & Group Executive of Sustainability Headquarters one by one, who then makes a monthly report to the CFO in charge of environmental affairs. Also, if they necessitate it, certain activities are reported to the Board of Executives.

Describe the process(es) your organization has in place to ensure that your external engagement activities are consistent with your climate commitments and/or climate transition plan?[…]The Global Environment Center of Sustainability Headquarters monitors the status of external activities that exert an impact on national policy and climate change strategies as well as the status of direct and indirect cooperative activities conducted by Canon. Through a "Group-linked information-gathering framework," the Global Environment Center of Sustainability Headquarters analyzes information that it has obtained through industries and supplies the results of that analysis to related internal divisions while simultaneously incorporating those results into the strategies and policies of the Canon Group. When working together with policy planners, the Global Environment Center of Sustainability Headquarters determines strategies and carries out activities based on those strategies while verifying their consistency with the policies of Canon. Product operations divisions decide upon specific actions to take with respect to products based on information from the Global Environment Center of Sustainability Headquarters as well as their own marketing information. All of these activities are reported to by the Senior General Manager of the Global Environment Center to the Executive Officer & Group Executive of Sustainability Headquarters one by one, who then makes a monthly report to the CFO in charge of environmental affairs. Also, if they necessitate it, certain activities are reported to the Board of Executives.

Does your organization have a public commitment or position statement to conduct your engagement activities in line with the goals of the Paris Agreement?[…]Yes