15 June, 2022, TOYOTA CITY – At 8:50 am today Greenpeace Japan activists displayed a banner in front of Toyota Motor Corporation’s Annual General Meeting that called on the company to stop producing fossil fuel cars and protect the climate.
Daniel Read, Climate & Energy Campaigner at Greenpeace Japan, said:
“As the world’s largest automotive company, Toyota must take real action to curb climate change. Based on Toyota’s sales target, EVs will account for less than 40% of the company’s average annual sales by 2030. This is far slower than what is needed to achieve Toyota’s own 2050 net zero target and works against the Paris Agreement goal of a global 1.5 degree Celsius temperature increase. We need to see Toyota end the sale of internal combustion engine vehicles by 2030.
On a political level, Toyota has the power to urge the Japanese government to phase out coal. However, at present, Toyota is actively working against a progressive climate policy and is impeding Japan from taking more significant climate action.”
Toyota received the lowest grade of any carmaker in Greenpeace’s 2021 auto industry ranking. Earlier this week, European pension funds voiced concern over Toyota’s slow EV transition and lobbying efforts against climate legislation.
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Media contacts:
Mitsuhisa Kawase, Senior Communications Officer, Greenpeace East Asia (Tokyo), +81 (0)70-3195-4165, [email protected]
Daniel Read, Climate & Energy Campaigner, Greenpeace East Asia (Tokyo), +81 70 1505 2897, [email protected]