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efforts of Mitsubishi companies to foster a greener,
more sustainable planet
and brighter, more vibrant communities through wide-ranging environmental and
social initiatives. |
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| Tokio Marine & Nichido Fire Insurance is supporting
the “Ten-Year Restoration Project of the Coastal Forests
of Tohoku Region,” promoted by the international NGO
OISCA. The project aims to reforest the seashores in Miyagi Prefecture that were |
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devastated by the Great East
Japan Earthquake and to promote regional development
by helping to restore agricultural land and create job
opportunities. Tokio Marine & Nichido is committed to the
project because its goals are in line with the company’s
principles of “conserve nature” and “contribute to society,”
as also manifested in the Mangrove Planting Project which
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company will provide financial
and human support by
donating 10 million yen and
through employee volunteer
activities. At the “Green
Gift Concert” staged by the
company in Tokyo in March,
the company collected
donations for the restoration
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| NYK and Tokio Marine Holdings (Tokio Marine & Nichido
Fire Insurance) were selected as two of the six Japanese
companies among 145 companies named in the 2012 list
of the World’s Most Ethical Companies published in March
by the Ethisphere Institute, a U.S. think-tank. First selected
in 2008, NYK has been on the Ethisphere list five years in a
row now and was the only shipping company to be selected
this year. The Tokio Marine Group was named in the list
mostly for the Green Gift Project and the Mangrove Planting
Project and other initiatives aimed for the conservation of
the environment and preservation of biodiversity. |
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| The Ethisphere Institute is a leading
international think-tank dedicated to promoting
the best practices in business ethics, corporate
social responsibility (CSR), anti-corruption
and sustainability. The World’s Most Ethical
Companies list is based on assessment in the
following categories: (1) Reputation, Innovation
and Leadership; (2) Corporate Governance;
(3) Compliance and Ethics Program; and
(4) Corporate Citizenship, Sustainability and
Responsibility. |
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| Asahi Glass (AGC) will begin educational support for poor
children and young people, centering on Guaratinguetá,
São Paulo State, Brazil, where AGC Glass Brazil is located,
in cooperation with Ayrton Senna Institute¹ and Casa
Betânia.² AGC will support the institute’s new programs to improve the educational environment, including training public school teachers in Guaratinguetá and improving |
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AGC Group President & CEO Kazuhiko Ishimura and Ayrton Senna
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| educational materials. In its partnership with Casa Betânia,
AGC will support the organization to expand the capacity of
their facility to accommodate more children and establish a
job training center. On April 18, AGC announced these
activities at the cornerstone-laying ceremony held in
Guaratinguetá, where AGC Glass Brazil is currently
constructing a plant. Through its business activities in
Brazil, which are continuing to develop, AGC will provide
products and services that help realize a comfortable and
convenient lifestyle, and will contribute to the development
of local communities by conducting support activities. |
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| Note 1: The Ayrton Senna Institute, established in 1994 according to the wishes of the late
Mr. Ayrton Senna, implements programs to improve public school education throughout Brazil,
and has been highly acclaimed by the UNESCO as an excellent NGO in the field of education. |
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the provision of meals and extracurricular lessons, for children in the poor districts of
Guaratinguetá for more than 30 years since 1976. |
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Mitsubishi Materials and Mitsubishi Corporation,
on April 5 this year commissioned a waste heat power generating system
that it began |
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| installing
in April last year at
its cement factory in
Yantai City, Shandong
Province, in east
China. The new system
generates electricity
using hot gas exhausted
and recovered from
the cement factory.
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factory and to cut CO2 emissions. The waste heat power
generating system has a capacity of 4,350 kW. This is
equivalent to 25% of the power used at the cement factory
and will help cut CO2 emissions by some 16,500 tons a
year. |
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