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Mitsubishi Electric Launches New Environmental PlanThree-year targets expected to fulfill Environmental Vision 2021
TOKYO, April 24, 2018 – Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (TOKYO: 6503) announced today that it haslaunched its ninth three-year environmental plan, which accords with Environmental Vision 2021, a long-term
environmental strategy ending in 2021, Mitsubishi Electric’s centenary anniversary. The plan is aligned withfive targets out of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations, including affordableand clean energy (No. 7) and climate action (No. 13).
Mitsubishi Electric has been implementing three-year environmental plans since 1993, aiming to become aglobal, leading green company. The new plan focuses on achieving targets set out in the Environmental Vision
2021, including reductions of greenhouse gas emissions, resource inputs, etc., from a medium- to long-term
perspective based on the Paris Agreement and in view of expected global water shortages in the future.
Greenhouse gas reduction
By the end of the fiscal year in March 2021, Mitsubishi Electric aims to reduce total annual greenhouse gasemissions, including gases such as carbon dioxide, sulfur hexafluoride, perfluorocarbon andhydrofluorocarbon, to 1.47 million tons on a carbon-dioxide-equivalent basis. This compares favorably with abenchmark of 2.64 million tons. The benchmark is based on fiscal 1991 carbon dioxide emissions on anonconsolidated basis; fiscal 2001 carbon dioxide emissions by Japan-based affiliated companies and noncarbon dioxide emissions on both a nonconsolidated basis and by Japan-based affiliated companies; and fiscal
2006 carbon dioxide and non-carbon dioxide emissions by affiliated companies outside Japan. Along withdeveloping a detailed road map for low-carbon societies, Mitsubishi Electric plans to set a science-based target(SBT) and have it validated by the science-based targets initiative (SBTi) team by fiscal 2020. Efforts toimprove the energy efficiency of Mitsubishi Electric Group products are expected to reduce carbon dioxide
emissions generated by the use of these products by an average 35 percent.

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Recycling
To promote effective use of water, Mitsubishi Electric will continue to control the amount of water used anddischarged, as well as reduce total water usage through water saving and recycling, at 80 operating sites inJapan and overseas. The company has set a target of reducing water intensity for total water usage at an annual
rate of 1 percent compared with fiscal 2011. In addition, waste-sorting and recycling efforts are aimed atachieving final-waste disposal of less than 0.1 percent at Mitsubishi Electric and Japanese-affiliate sites, andless than 0.5 percent at affiliate-company sites outside Japan. Resource inputs are expected to fall to 40 percentof the fiscal 2001 level through lighter and more compact products.
Preservation of biodiversity
At all manufacturing sites in Japan, Mitsubishi Electric will contribute to the preservation of biodiversity.
Ongoing activities include protecting endemic species, controlling non-native species and establishinggreenery suited to surrounding ecosystems. All such activities will accord with the Aichi Biodiversity Targets
and studies of local fauna to be completed by fiscal 2018. Activities to raise public awareness of nature in
Japan, namely the Mitsubishi Electric Outdoor Classroom and the Satoyama Woodland Preservation Project,
have the goal of attracting 51,000 cumulative participants, up from 39,000 as of March 2018.
Environmental management
Mitsubishi Electric will reduce the environmental risks of its factories and improve environmental
management by enhancing monitoring of environmental laws and regulations, such as European chemical
substances regulations, and by developing technologies aligned with regulatory changes at all factories outside
Japan.
Ninth Environmental Plan Compared with Eighth Plan and Environmental Vision 2021

■Initiatives for low-carbon societies
Main activities
Reduce carbon
dioxide emissions
from production
Reduce carbon
dioxide emissions
from product usage
Increase contribution
to reducing carbon
dioxide from productusage

Evaluation index
Annualgreenhouse gas
emissions on acarbon-dioxideequivalent basis
Average reduction
rate compared withfiscal 2001
Contribution to
reducing carbon
dioxide fromproduct usage

Forecasts of eighth
environmental
planTargets of ninth
environmental
planTargets ofEnvironmental
Vision 2021

1.37 million tons

1.47 million tons
(45% reduction
compared withbase year)

30% reduction
compared withbase year

35%

35%

30%

74 million tons

70 million tons

N/A

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■Initiatives for recycling-based societies
Main activities

Waste control

Reduce resource
inputs
Effective use of water

Evaluation index

Final disposal ratio
for waste

Average reduction
rate compared withfiscal 2001Reduction of water
intensity comparedwith fiscal 2011

Forecasts of eighth
environmental
planTargets of ninth
environmental
planIn Japan:
Less than 0.1%

Less than 0.1%

Overseas:
Less than 0.6%

Less than 0.5%

40%

40%

30%

N/A

1% annually

N/A

Targets ofEnvironmental
Vision 2021
Less than 0.1%
(Announced asless than 1%)
Less than 0.1%
(Announced asless than 1%)■Initiatives for stronger awareness of nature
Main activities

Evaluation index

Forecast of eighth
environmental
planTargets of ninth
environmental
planTargets ofEnvironmental
Vision 2021

Mitsubishi Electric
Outdoor Classroomand Satoyama
WoodlandPreservation Project

Cumulative
participants

39,00051,000

N/A

Preserve biodiversity
at business sites

Activities in linewith the Aichi
Biodiversity
Targets

All manufacturing
sites in JapanAll
manufacturing
sites in Japan

N/A

Target of ninth
environmental
planTarget ofEnvironmental
Vision 2021

Raise level ofenvironmental
management atoverseas
factories

N/A■Strengthening environmental management
Main activities

Ensure compliancewith environmental
laws and regulations

Evaluation index

N/A

Forecast of eighth
environmental
plan
Establish
alternativetechnologies andtake measures tosatisfy
RoHS regulations###About Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
With over 90 years of experience in providing reliable, high-quality products, Mitsubishi ElectricCorporation (TOKYO: 6503) is a recognized world leader in the manufacture, marketing and sales ofelectrical and electronic equipment used in information processing and communications, space development
and satellite communications, consumer electronics, industrial technology, energy, transportation andbuilding equipment. Embracing the spirit of its corporate statement, Changes for the Better, and its
environmental statement, Eco Changes, Mitsubishi Electric endeavors to be a global, leading green company,enriching society with technology. The company recorded consolidated group sales of 4,238.6 billion yen(US$ 37.8 billion*) in the fiscal year ended March 31, 2017. For more information visit:
www.MitsubishiElectric.com*At an exchange rate of 112 yen to the US dollar, the rate given by the Tokyo Foreign Exchange Market on
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