Sustainability

As a leading international end-to-end supply chain services provider for the entertainment industry and beyond, we are committed to minimizing the negative impacts of our operations on the environment and to undertaking relevant steps to restore and preserve the environment.

Sony actively pursues a “Green Partner Program” and all Sony suppliers must be certified. This benchmark standard ensures maintenance of common global quality standards where all parts and components are procured from suppliers who have passed a mandatory audit.

As global supply chain provider to the content industry, we are committed to minimizing the negative impacts of our operation on the environment and to undertaking relevant steps to restore and preserve the environment.

Our endeavor for environmental protection includes compliance with all applicable legal requirements and with other requirements to which we subscribe, such as internal standards or requirements that relate to our environmental aspects. It includes the prevention of pollution and continuous improvement in our environmental performance. We control our environmental impacts, set technically feasible objectives and targets on an annual basis and review the results. As proven in many cases in the past, with careful planning, creativity and the latest technology, environmental goals and economic considerations can be brought into line.

Our activities with regard to environmental protection are based on the assessment of the main environmental aspects. We strive to reduce the consumption of direct and indirect materials, energy and water, for the reduction of solvent emissions and for the reduction and recycling of waste. Furthermore we work towards reducing and replacing the use of substances that are harmful and that can have negative impacts on the environment.

We are committed to assessing the environmental impacts of our operations on a regular basis, both for existing operations and before commencing new activities, in order to minimize the identified impacts.

We constantly stimulate awareness of environmental issues and competence among our employees with respect to environmental protection by means of providing training, as well as by internally communicating the policy, annual objectives, targets and our environmental performance on a regular basis. We inform and advise our customers of environmental questions relating to our products and environmental aspects and we include our suppliers and contractors in our environmental activities.

To ensure compliance with this policy, we have implemented an Environmental Management System (EMS) and Environmental Audits which are carried out on a regular basis. The Environmental Management System and the Environmental Policy are reviewed regularly by the Management Board of Sony DADC.