Looking ahead to the year 2012, the 100th anniversary of its founding, Sharp has set two business visions. One is “Contribute to the world through environment- and health-conscious business, focusing on energy-saving and energy-creating products.” The other is “Contribute to a ubiquitous society^* with one-of-a-kind LCDs.” The aim of both of these visions is to contribute to the next generation by using the proprietary technologies that Sharp has built up over many years of development. Through actions geared towards achieving these visions─indeed through everything that Sharp does─Sharp is striving to become an Eco-Positive Company, its corporate vision.

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A “ubiquitous society” refers to how the whole of society will be connected through the rapid development of IT infrastructure and networks will always be accessible to users.

By “Eco-Positive Company,” Sharp means a company that works with all stakeholders in creating solutions that have significantly more positive impact on the environment than the negative impact caused by company operations.

A particular focus is the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. By fiscal 2012, Sharp’s goal is to have emission reductions that result from customer use of Sharp energy-creating and energy-saving products be more than double the total greenhouse gas emissions from business activities. To this end, Sharp is developing and promoting the use of solar cells and energy-saving products as well as reducing its emissions.

In fiscal 2010, Sharp emitted 1.634 million t-CO2, but use of Sharp energy-creating and energy-saving products contributed to emission reductions of 3.263 million t-CO2, approximately 1.9 times the amount of Sharp’s emissions. We expect to achieve our goal of having emission reductions be more than double our greenhouse gas emissions in fiscal 2011, one year earlier than initially planned.

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Sharp is striving to realize its corporate vision by carrying out its Eco-Positive Strategy worldwide. Under this strategy, Sharp is pursuing environmental efforts from four aspects—technologies, products, operations, and relationships.