As the environmental-management inspection body, POSCO¡¯s Environment & Energy Committee, consisting of executives and department managers in charge of environmental and energy concerns, is responsible for reviewing environmental and energy management diagnosis data, and supporting top management¡¯s decisions on important issues. For the effective implementation of our environmental objectives and action plans, the Environment & Energy Committee is responsible for environmental facility management, environmental education, and environmental accident prevention. Top management reviews our environmental management activities, the opinions of stakeholders, and the impact of emerging environmental issues on corporate activities, which are then applied in managerial strategies.

Pohang Head Office, Pohang Works, and Gwangyang Works each has its own Environment and Energy Department. The Environment and Energy Department at the headquarters establishes the basic direction for environmental management, and attends to international environmental conventions and regulations. The onsite Environment and Energy Departments at Pohang Works and Gwangyang Works formulate and carry out the action plans, and extend environmental management throughout all departments at their respective steelworks.

We receive scientific and technological support, as well as support on environmental management policies and techniques from internal and external cooperatives: the Research Institute of Industrial Science & Technology (RIST), the Environment & Energy Research Center, POSCO Research Institute (POSRI), the Environment Management Research Team within Management Study Center, and the School of Environmental Science and Engineering at the Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH).