Oct. 30, 2014
Toyota Names 2014 Environmental Grant Recipients
Toyota City, Japan, October 30, 2014―Toyota Motor Corporation names 21 projects today that will receive grants under the Toyota Environmental Activities Grant Program between April 1 this year and March 31, 2015. Recipients include a project to promote locally directed hydropower generation and watershed protection in Indonesia and a nationwide biodiversity seminar project in Japan.
A total of 121 applications were received in two grant categories (Japan-based projects and projects based outside Japan), and initial screening and selection were conducted by an expert committee chaired by Dr. Keiko Nakamura, director general of the JT Biohistory Research Hall. The selection committee awarded grants to ten overseas projects and 11 Japan-based projects, which were vetted based on their sustainability, expansiveness, and harmony with regional characteristics.
A ceremony will be held in December, where representatives of the selected projects will be presented with grant certificates. A final report meeting is also scheduled for next spring.
The Toyota Environmental Activities Grant Program was launched in 2000 in commemoration of Toyota's receipt of the Global 500 Award* from the United Nations Environment Programme in the previous year. Since then, the program has supported 278 pragmatically minded projects conducted by NPOs and other private non-profit groups in 52 countries and regions.
Grant program contact: Secretariat, Toyota Environmental Activities Grant Program
- tmc-ecogrant@g500.jp
- URL
*Recognizes the outstanding achievements of individuals and organizations in protecting and improving the environment. In 1999, Toyota became the first Japanese corporation to receive the award in recognition of its many initiatives to protect and improve the environment (such as being the first company in the world to mass-produce and sell hybrid vehicles) and its wide-ranging corporate social contribution activities.
1. 2014 Toyota Environmental Activities Grant Program Recipients
| Project Implementation Sites |
*Total sum |
FY2014 | FY2013 | FY2012 | FY2011 | FY2010 | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sub total |
Category | Sub total |
Category | Sub total |
Category | Sub total |
Category | Sub total |
Category | |||||||
| Overseas | Japan | Overseas | Japan | Overseas | Japan | Overseas | Japan | Overseas | Japan | |||||||
| Total | 278 | 21 | 10 | 11 | 24 | 10 | 14 | 19 | 9 | 10 | 21 | 11 | 10 | 18 | 6 | 12 |
| Asia | 93 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| The Americas |
19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Africa | 25 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Europe | 9 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Japan | 132 | 11 | 0 | 11 | 14 | 0 | 14 | 10 | 0 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 10 | 12 | 0 | 12 |
*Projects awarded grants from 2000 to 2014
2. 2014 Toyota Environmental Activities Grant Program Recipients
| Grant Category |
Theme | Project Description | Organization | Country/ region |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Outside Japan |
Biodiversity Conservation |
Project to validate distribution of biodiversity conservation teaching materials designed for elementary school students and their parents in Bangladesh | Japan Environmental Education Forum | Bangladesh |
| Protection of and educational campaign on the Philippine eagle, the Philippine national bird, on Luzon Island | BirdLife International Tokyo | Philippines | ||
| Preparation for realizing the Children's Environment Summit, a biodiversity conservation initiative for the Yangtze River watershed | General Incorporated Association 'Toki-no-hane(feather of Japanese crested ibis)' |
China | ||
| Millennium Seed Bank Technology Transfer project | Royal Botanic Gardens Kew | U.K/Brazil | ||
| Promotion of "verbatim recordings" in order to preserve and pass down the local dialects and traditional knowledge in Indonesia | Kyouzonnomori Network (Network for Coexistence with Nature) | Indonesia | ||
| Global Warming |
Promotion of small hydroelectric generation and citizen-led watershed preservation in Lampung Province, Indonesia | WWF(World Wide Fund for Nature)Japan | ||
| Charcoal gasification power generation in non-electrified villages in West Kalimantan Province, Indonesia | Asian People's Exchange(APEX) | |||
| "Sustainable Life Forest" Project for Environmental Restoration and Disaster Risk Reduction along the coastal villages in Odisha State, India | Ramsar Center Japan | India | ||
| Environmental education, forest preservation and regeneration in southeastern Madagascar | Conservation International Japan | Madagascar | ||
| Creative wetland restoration and adapting to climate change in Hungary | WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature) Hungary | Hungary | ||
| Japan | Biodiversity Conservation |
Protection of local ecosystem using the Yatsushiro Illustrated Encyclopedia for Children and Nature, created jointly by youths, governmental agencies, academics, and the private sector. | Jisedainotameni Ganbarokai | Japan |
| Nationwide Visiting Lecture on Biodiversity for Citizens Project, aimed at mainstreaming biodiversity | The Nature Conservation Society of Japan | |||
| Creation of intraregional circulation and exchange through a new way of utilizing mulberry trees, silkworms, and cocoons, which will link hilly and mountainous areas to urban areas | NPO Mulberry Club Chubu | |||
| Project to study, preserve and pass on the native crops on the western foot of Mt. Fuji via the hands of farmers and citizens | NPO Whole Earth Institute | |||
| Activities to protect and rescue the Tsushima Leopard Cat, and veterinary activities to help its return to the wild and improve its habitat | Conservation and Animal Welfare Trust | |||
| Evaluation of planting areas in order to improve and continue tree-planting activities, and assessment of use of these areas by wild animals | NPO picchio | |||
| Protection of biodiversity in the Yahagi River watershed, preservation of indigenous watershed management method, and creation of sustainable environmental education | Chubu Regional Centre of Expertise on Education for Sustainable Development | |||
| Plant and wood ash production project in Matsubara | Green City Fukuoka | |||
| Global Warming |
Effective utilization of bamboo plants flourishing in the forests near populated areas for agriculture, with the goal of carbon fixation, such that these areas can be developed and passed onto the next generation | Environment-Education seminar of Energy in Yokkaichi University | ||
| Summer-break hybrid mini solar car creation class | Ube Network for Climate Change Actions | |||
| Firewood forest creation project Wood stoves playing major role in global warming prevention measures in Saku City, Nagano Prefecture |
NPO The Life style Research Institute of Forests |
