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Two 10-Year Projects
Undertaken Toward Realizing an Environmentally Advanced City

TMG is promoting "10-Year Project for a Carbon-Minus Tokyo" and the "10-Year Project for Green Tokyo" as projects undertaken toward realizing " Tokyo's Big Change ～The 10-year Plan ～", as formulated in December 2006.

In June 2007, the Tokyo Climate Change Strategy and 10-Year Project for Green Tokyo: Basic Policies were formulated to plot a basic course for each project. The Tokyo Climate Change Strategy clarified the basic stance for dealing with climate change in Tokyo over the next ten years and set forth representative measures on an anticipatory basis. The 10-Year Project for Green Tokyo: Basic Policies presents the basic concepts and direction underlying the green measures that will be undertaken with the aim of realizing a city imbued with greenery.

These projects took on further shape with the formulation of the “2008 Implementation Program for Tokyo’s Big Change: The 10-year Plan” and the undertaking of budget preparations for fiscal year 2008. In February 2008, the state of the implementation of measures within each project was summarized. The main contents thereof are as presented below.

Actions undertaken for project measures will be accelerated by steadily implementing these measures, incorporating new initiatives, and revising projects where required.

10-Year Project for a Carbon-Minus Tokyo

Measures applicable to industry and businesses

  • Measures applicable to large-scale CO2 emitting business operations (including the introduction of an obligation to reduce emissions and a program for handling (reducing) emission tradings)
  • Measures to reduce CO2 generated by small and medium-sized companies (including planning for a program to promote new global warming measures)
  • Measures to reduce CO2 emissions within the context of urban development (including the reinforcement of the Tokyo green building program)
  • Leadership demonstrated by TMG through initiatives (including the comprehensive deployment of energy conservation and energy recycling measures at metropolitan government facilities)

Measures applicable to households

  • Development of low CO2 emitting residential units (including the supply and promotion of carbon-minus homes)
  • Shifts in lifestyle (including campaigns designed to eliminate the use of incandescent lighting)

Measures applicable to transportation

  • Promoting the use of low-emission, fuel-efficient vehicles (including by way of the stipulation of rules promoting the use of fuel-efficient vehicles)
  • Automobile fuel measures (promoting the introduction of environmental automobile fuels)
  • Promoting ecological driving (eco-driving) (including by way of encouraging residents of Tokyo to practice eco-driving)
  • Traffic flow and traffic volume measures (including the deployment of environmental transportation measures in line with local specificities)

Carbon-minus movement

  • Building momentum for the reduction of CO2 emissions (including the cultivation of movements linked to the environment)
  • Research and development pertaining to pioneering environmental technologies (including the development of energy conserving products using ceramic materials)
  • Collaborations with cities around the world (including partnerships with Asian cities)

Asaka Purification Plant
▲Photovoltaic power generation(Asaka Purification Plant)

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10-Year Project for Green Tokyo

Strategy I / Deploy grassroots green movements led by residents and companies.

  • Greenery cherished tended by residents (such as by promoting a sense of ownership over trees).
  • Participants of the Green Tokyo Fund consist of residents and companies.
  • Voluntary greening activities by private businesses and organizations.

Strategy II / Enhance the green network by doubling roadside trees.

  • Make the Umi-no-Mori (Sea Forest) idea a reality.
  • Develop marine parks.
  • Double the number of roadside trees.
  • Introduce greening initiatives to waterfront areas.
  • Develop urban parks.
  • Environmental foundation: network of urban space imbued with abundant greenery

Strategy III / Establish community green hubs by intensive use of the school ground grassing project.

  • Promote the grassing schoolyards (including through assistance projects for sodding the athletic fields of public elementary and junior high schools).
  • Implement measures to promote and support the grassing schoolyards (including by way of setting up the Tokyo Lawn Cheering Squad).

Strategy IV / Use ingenuity to create and conserve greenery.

Greening every urban space
  • Reinforce, establish, and popularize programs (including by way of reinforcing the greening plan program).
  • Engage in the rooftop gardening of existing buildings (including by way of the study of Tokyo's own political taxation system).
  • TMG shall undertake initiatives that demonstrate leadership (greening of TMG-owned facilities).

(Tokyo Metropolitan Government)
▲Illustration of rooftop
gardening
(Tokyo Metropolitan Government)

Conserving greenery
  • Engage in the greenery of urban areas (including by way of reinforcing the development permit system based on ordinances governing the protection of the natural environment).
  • Conserve agricultural land (including by way of the promotion of symbiosis projects involve urban areas and agriculture to protect greenery ).
  • Conserve the greenery of hilly and forested areas (including by way of the designation and promotion of conservation districts).
  • Develop a green framework (such as by producing a comprehensive green database).
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