Admin I November 17, 2016
Toyota City, Japan – Toyota Motor Corporation has selected 28 projects to be the grant recipients of the Toyota Environmental Activities Grant Program. In the 17 years since its introduction in 2000, a cumulative total of 332 projects in 53 countries and regions have received this grant.
The program was introduced to commemorate Toyota winning the Global 500 Award1 in 1999. It is also part of Challenge 6: the Challenge of Establishing a Future Society in Harmony with Nature under the Toyota Environmental Challenge 20502, which was announced in 2015.
Once again, biodiversity conservation and global warming were chosen as themes for the grant program, which drew 92 applications in the three selection categories―the international project grants, the domestic project grants, and the domestic small project grants.
During the screening process, the first and final rounds focused on continuity and future development, harmony with regional characteristics, among other considerations. Within the international project grant category, 10 projects, including the “Joint Biodiversity Conservation Activities with Cacao Farmers in Ghana” were selected.
In Japan, ten projects including the “Conservation of Endangered Butterflies (luehdorfia japonica and coenonympha oedippus arothius)” were selected from the domestic project category, and eight projects including the “Local Power to Protect Wildlife! Nature Specialist Club for Nurturing Future Generations” were selected from the domestic small project grant category.
A ceremony will be held in December in Tokyo, where representatives of this year’s selected projects will be presented with grant certificates. A meeting will be held next spring to report on the selections.
Toyota plans to continue making its contributions to establish a future society in harmony with nature through various forms of support to NPOs among others, in the future.
