Teijin Group announced on April 16 that it had established its long-term goal of environment conservation and an environment-conscious recognition system. For environment conservation, the company will reduce chemical emissions by more than 80% and waste generation by more than 85% below fiscal 1998 levels by 2020. For environment-conscious design, it will institute "Teijin Group Guidelines for Environment-conscious Design" and establish a new environment-conscious recognition system, showing its direction and standard of environment-conscious design. With this, the company will gain an understanding of the actual situation of environment-conscious products and processes by June and start full-scale operation from July.

The environment-conscious recognition system will make evaluations according to six criteria i.e, energy saving, resource saving, safety, environment friendliness, provision of information and production stage in order to reduce the environmental load throughout the life cycle of products from raw materials procurement through production, sale and use to recycling and disposal. Specifically, "environment-conscious products and processes" accreditation will be given only to products and processes which comply with certain standards in a newly made special checklist (two types, one for raw materials and one for final products) after being given scores from the results of comparison with conventional and other companies' products.

Teijin issued a call to action for a sustainable environment, and began to promote sustainable management in July last year, and set a goal to reduce CO₂ by 20% compared to fiscal 1990 by 2020. In 2005, Teijin was able to cut its output of chemical substances by 60% compared to fiscal 1998.