Toyota Motor: Joins Japanese Cities of Okuma, Futaba and Nami in Carbon Neutrality Partnership | Jobs Reply

December 22, 2022

Toyota joins carbon neutrality partnership in Japanese cities of Okuma, Futaba and NamiAiming to achieve circular agriculture across dairy and food crop farming to promote reconstruction after the Great East Japan Earthquake

Okuma, Futaba, Namie, and Toyota Motor Corporation (Toyota) entered into a Carbon Neutrality Partnership Agreement today.

The three towns of Okuma, Futaba, and Namie are located in the Futaba District of Fukushima Prefecture. Following the partial lifting of evacuation orders due to the Great East Japan Earthquake and other factors, reconstruction efforts are expected to accelerate. It is hoped that focusing on carbon neutrality will improve sustainability for the region. Toyota is implementing initiatives in collaboration with many partners to contribute to reconstruction in Fukushima Prefecture. It entered into this partnership with the hope of harnessing the results of research and development in agriculture to contribute to carbon neutrality and restructuring in the three cities.

The following table details the actions of each party under this Agreement.

In the future, the goal is to collaborate with the Research Association of Biomass Innovation for Next Generation Automobile Fuels, a collaboration of six private companies, including Toyota, that is researching efficient systems for ethanol production in Okuma. One possibility under study is the use of crops grown on Okuma and Futaba agricultural lands as raw materials for bioethanol fuel production.

Okuma, Futaba, Namie, and Toyota will continue to deepen their collaboration to carry out post-earthquake reconstruction in the future. This partnership will positively contribute to achieving carbon neutrality by reducing transport-related CO2Emissions through low-carbon circular agriculture and local use of local products in terms of fertilizers and livestock feed.

“Achieving Zero, and Adding New Values ​​Beyond”

As part of its efforts to pass on our beautiful “home planet” to the next generation, Toyota is identifying and helping to solve problems facing individuals and society as a whole, which Toyota calls “Achieving Zero”, hoping to help reduce negative impacts on people and the environment. Zero is this problem. Additionally, Toyota is looking “beyond zero” to create and deliver greater value by persistently pursuing ways to improve lives and society for the future.

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