Water Resources : External Collaboration

External Collaboration

Responding to CDP

MC actively disseminates information about its ESG-related initiatives to its various stakeholders around the world. CDP is a UK-based international environmental NGO, and conducts activities to promote corporate environmental information disclosure at the request of institutional investors around the world. It holds the world’s largest database of corporate disclosures on climate change initiatives, and since FY2011, MC has responded the CDP Water Security questionnaire, which evaluates corporate water management.

Participation in the Water Project of the Ministry of the Environment of Japan

MC participates in the Water Project*, a public-private initiative which promotes initiatives aimed at preserving or restoring healthy water cycles. MC shares information with other companies on water risks and water-related initiatives, and considers how to pursue such initiatives internally.

the Water Project

MC is promoting activities, both through business and corporate philanthropy initiatives, to maintain and restore sound water cycles. MC also disseminates information about its initiatives and the importance of water through internal and external communication.

    　
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    The project was launched based on the Basic Act on Water Cycles in 2014. The Water Project was founded to build a public-private collaboration platform and to promote initiatives and self-motivated approaches from private sector companies aimed at achieving sound water cycles and water environment preservation.
    　

Collaboration with NGOs

MC supports a wide range of initiatives focusing on environmental and sustainable development in the Americas, Europe and Africa through the Mitsubishi Corporation Foundation for the Americas (MCFA) and the Mitsubishi Corporation Fund for Europe and Africa (MCFEA). Some examples include supporting mangrove ecosystem conservation activities in Senegal through ENDA Energie and U.S. Gulf Coast cleanup activities to protect biodiversity and conserve shorelines through a partnership with American Bird Conservancy and SPLASh.