Milestones in Environmental Management: Environmental Activities

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This section chronologically introduces our environmental activities and related developments.

NEC Management

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Trends in Environmentalism

NEC Efforts

Historical Events

Revitalization of NEC for the Next Century: 2000-
•	In-house company system introduced and position of corporate officer created (2000)
•	“The Earth Simulator”, the world's fastest supercomputer used to create global-scale environmental simulation models, was completed (2001)
•	Transition to flat management system based on business lines (2003)
•	CSR promotion system and framework strengthened (2003)

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Promotion of Environmental Management: 2000-
•	First Eco-Mark given to Laptop PC (2000)
•	1st Environmental Management Conference held (2000)
•	Company designated as wide-area recycler of waste (2001)
•	Zero emissions achieved at all manufacturing subsidiaries in the NEC Group (2002)
•	Forestation operations started on Kangaroo Island in Australia (2002)
•	NEC Environmental Management Vision 2010 announced (2003)
•	NEC Refreshed PC business started (2003)
•	Home PC recycling started (2003)
•	Environmental governance reinforced (2003)
•	NEC Rice Paddy Building Project for employee environmental awareness started (2004)
•	ISO certification acquired by all domestic manufacturing and software companies

•	Basic Law for Establishing a Recycling-based Society and Law for Promoting Green Purchasing prepared (2000)
•	Seventh Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change held (COP7) held (2001)
•	Home Appliance Recycling Law went into effect (2001)
•	Kyoto Protocol ratified (2002)
•	Eighth United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change held (COP8) (2002)
•	PC Recycling Law went into effect (2003)
•	Ninth United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change held (COP9) (2003)
•	Tenth United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change held (COP10) (2004)
•	Kyoto Protocol went into effect (2004)

*Items appearing in blue occurred in Japan