Water Resources: External Collaboration

External Collaboration

Responding to CDP

MC actively shares information about its ESG-related initiatives with stakeholders around the world. CDP, a UK-based international environmental NGO, promotes corporate environmental information disclosure at the request of institutional investors globally. CDP maintains the world’s largest database of corporate disclosures on climate change initiatives. Since FY2011, MC has responded to 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 that promotes efforts to preserve and restore healthy water cycles. Through this initiative, MC exchanges information with other companies on water risks and water-related efforts, and considers how to advance similar initiatives within the company.

the Water Project

MC promotes activities, both through its business operations and through corporate philanthropy, to maintain and restore sound water cycles. The company also communicates the importance of water and its related initiatives through internal and external channels.　

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    The Water Project was launched in 2014 based on the Basic Act on Water Cycles. It was established to create a public-private collaboration platform and support self-directed initiatives by private-sector organizations to help achieve sound water cycles and preserve the water environment.
    　

Collaboration with NGOs

MC supports a wide range of environmental and social initiatives across the Americas and the EMEA region through the Mitsubishi Corporation Foundation for the Americas (MCFA) and the Mitsubishi Corporation Foundation for EMEA Charitable Incorporated Organisation (MCF for EMEA). Notable examples include mangrove ecosystem conservation efforts in Senegal in partnership with ENDA Energie, and training for local leaders in conservation and sustainable development in the Amazon through collaboration with the Foundation for Amazon Sustainability (FAS).