Environmental Initiatives
Overview
To ensure that its products are accepted and well-received around the world, Toyota has positioned the environment as a priority management issue and seeks to become a leading company that contributes to the development of a recycling-based society through innovative environmental technologies. To that end, Toyota has created environmental management systems in all regions around the world and in all areas and is continually promoting measures with goals set according to the highest standards in each country and region.
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Month
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Events
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1963
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November
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Production Environment Committee established
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1973
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June
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Month of June designated as 'Toyota Environment Month' (later changed to 'Global Environment Month' in 1991)
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September
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Environmental Product Design Assessment Committee established
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1990
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October
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Recycling Committee established
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1992
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January
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Toyota Environment Committee established
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January
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Toyota adopts the 'Comprehensive Approach to Global Environmental Issues' (also known as the 'Toyota Earth Charter')
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1993
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February
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Toyota Environmental Action Plan established
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1997
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July
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October
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1998
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January
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Environmental Affairs Division established
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May
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All-Toyota Global Warming Prevention Council established
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October
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Law Concerning the Promotion of Measures to Cope with Global Warming promulgated
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December
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'Environmental Report' published
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1999
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March
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Toyota's Purchasing Group issues Environmental Purchasing Guidelines to its suppliers
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June
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July
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PRTR Law promulgated
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August
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Toyota begins including 'environmental specifications' in its product catalogs
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October
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First Global EMS Liaison Meeting held
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2000
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April
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Toyota Earth Charter revised
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April
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'Consolidated environmental management' introduced into all consolidated subsidiaries in Japan and overseas (445 companies)
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May
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Toyota Environmental Activities Grant Program commenced
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June
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Basic Act for Establishing a Sound Material-Cycle Society promulgated
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June
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Environmental Textbook (two volumes) published
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July
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All-Toyota Production Environment Conference held
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August
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Toyota expands the application of its Environmental Purchasing Guidelines to its overseas locations
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2001
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January
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Ministry of the Environment established
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April
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PRTR Law goes into effect
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April
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Production Environment Logistics Subcommittee established (with its secretariat located inside the Logistics Planning Division)
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June
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Automotive NOx Law changed to the Automotive NOx and PM Law
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November
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Toyota begins holding 'stakeholder dialogs'
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December
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Toyota begins publishing life-cycle assessment (LCA) results in new car catalogs
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Toyota achieves 100% green purchasing
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2002
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February
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European Environmental Committee established
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March
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First Overseas Regional Production Environment Conference held
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April
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'Environmental Information Network System (with Environmental Performance Indicators [EPI])' introduced
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June
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The Japanese government makes a cabinet decision to ratify the Kyoto Protocol
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July
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Automobile Recycling Law promulgated
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2003
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February
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Soil Contamination Countermeasures Act promulgated
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June
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'Toyota Recycling Vision' created and announced
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June
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Plans announced for full-scale implementation of 'Eco-Vehicle Assessment System (Eco-VAS)' beginning in 2005
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August
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October
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Tokyo Metropolitan Government puts into effect its Diesel Vehicle Emission Regulations
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2004
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January
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Japan Auto Recycling Partnership, Ltd. established
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April
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North America Environment Committee established
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May
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Air Pollution Control Law revised (imposing restrictions on volatile organic compounds [VOC])
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June
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Law Concerning the Promotion of Business Activities with Environmental Consideration enacted (to promote preparation of environmental reports)
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2005
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January
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Operation of an internal information system in compliance with the Automobile Recycling Law commenced
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Automobile Recycling Law goes into effect
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February
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Kyoto Protocol goes into effect
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April
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June
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Revised Air Pollution Control Law goes into effect
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October
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2006
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March
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Toyota's Environmental Purchasing Guidelines revised (into the Toyota Green Purchasing Guidelines)
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May
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South America Environment Committee established
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July
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EU starts its RoHS directive
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November
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Global Environment Award is established
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2007
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January
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Environmental Affairs Division reorganized into the CSR & Environmental Affairs Division
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March
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China Environment Committee established
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October
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Australia Environment Committee established
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2008
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April
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South Africa Environment Committee established
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May
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Resource Recycling Committee established
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2009
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October
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Toyota HV Call Center established (and a new hybrid vehicle battery recycling system started)
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2010
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June
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CSR Department transferred to the Corporate Planning Division; name changed to Environmental Affairs Division
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October
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Tenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity held
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2011
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July
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The First Global Environmental Conference held
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September
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October
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The Nature Coexistence Project of the Toyota Shirakawa-Go Eco-Institute receives the Second Contest for Corporate Activities on Biodiversity from the Ministry of the Environment
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November
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'Toyota Green Purchasing Guidelines' revised (Chemical substances management enhanced)
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