Kawasaki City turns into first dekokatsu subsidy municipality for selling decarbonization life-style promotion venture

KAWASAKI, Japan, September 11, 2025 – (JCN Newswire) – Kawasaki City and Fujitsu Limited as we speak introduced that the Kawasaki City decarbonization life-style behavioral change promotion venture, which goals to realize a decarbonized society by encouraging citizen behavioral change, has been chosen to obtain the dekokatsu [1] subsidy from Japan’s Ministry of the Environment (MOE). This marks the primary time a Japanese municipality has been awarded this important subsidy, which goals to help initiatives with sustainable environmental conservation results, similar to greenhouse gasoline discount, and enhancements in every day life by means of modifications in residents’ life. The award was initially granted in July.

As an enhanced model of the prevailing venture, Kawasaki City and Fujitsu will collaborate with Kawasaki Frontale (a soccer membership initially established by Fujitsu) to launch new initiatives together with the gathering and recycling of used clothes and the visualization of residents’ CO2 discount contributions. The time period of the brand new venture might be September 2025 – February 2026.

Launched on August 7, 2024, the Kawasaki City decarbonization life-style behavioral change promotion venture entails collaboration between Kawasaki City and 6 companies which have touchpoints with residents’ every day lives by means of their services. The venture purpose is to advertise citizen behavioral change by visualizing CO2 discount contributions.

Implementing entities:

Kawasaki City and Fujitsu Limited

Implementation interval & whole venture price:

September 2025 (deliberate, after grant choice) – February 28, 2026
Approximately 13.5 million JPY (of which 4.5 million JPY is roofed by the subsidy)

Key Initiatives:

Promoting citizen behavioral change

1. Collaboration with Kawasaki Frontale for round economic system initiatives (new exercise):

• Kawasaki City and Fujitsu plan an indication of round economic system ideas by means of the gathering and recycling of used clothes for the SDGs Land occasion at Uvance Todoroki Stadium by Fujitsu on September 28, 2025.

2. Efforts to extend family waste separation charges by means of consciousness at metropolis occasions (expanded exercise):

• Used clothes assortment and recycling stations might be arrange at occasions such because the Tama Ward Citizens’ Festival (scheduled for October 18, 2025) and the Minna no Kawasaki Festival (scheduled for November 2, 2025) to advertise citizen understanding and contribute to an elevated restoration fee of recyclable assets, similar to plastic waste, from households.

3. Strengthening info dissemination to extend assortment of small residence home equipment at environmental enterprise places of work (expanded exercise):

• Initiative to extend the amount of small residence home equipment collected at environmental enterprise places of work and comparable services.

Visualization of CO2‚ discount contributions, evaluation of venture results, and knowledge dissemination:

• Utilizing instruments similar to Green Carb0n Club, an environmental behavioral change smartphone utility for customers in Japan, the venture goals to visualise CO2 discount contributions from the initiatives to advertise behavioral change, analyze venture results by means of surveys of occasion individuals, and broadly disseminate the outcomes.

Roles and tasks:

Kawasaki City:
– Implementation of occasions and assortment factors
– Information dissemination

Fujitsu:
– Visualization of CO2 discount contributions utilizing the dekokatsu database, a catalog of CO2 emission discount results of decarbonization-contributing actions in varied points of every day life created by means of collaboration between the Japanese authorities and volunteer corporations.
– Analysis of environmental behavioral information utilizing CO2 discount contributions and survey outcomes.

Future initiatives by means of the venture:

Kawasaki City:

• Through these initiatives, Kawasaki City will additional promote citizen behavioral change to realize its targets of net-zero greenhouse gasoline emissions throughout town by 2050 and a discount of over 45% in emissions from the residential and industrial sectors by fiscal yr 2030 (in comparison with fiscal yr 2013).

Fujitsu:

• Through this venture, Fujitsu will analyze components influencing citizen behavioral change and visualize the CO2 discount results of every initiative, growing a sustainable enterprise mannequin. This will contribute to “solving global environmental issues,” one of many Fujitsu Group’s key materiality matters.

[1] Dekokatsu 
A mix of the Japanese phrases for “decarbonization” and “lifestyle,” referring to actions and life that contribute to decarbonization and are environmentally pleasant. 

About Fujitsu

Fujitsu’s objective is to make the world extra sustainable by constructing belief in society by means of innovation. As the digital transformation accomplice of alternative for purchasers across the globe, our 113,000 staff work to resolve a number of the best challenges going through humanity. Our vary of providers and options draw on 5 key applied sciences: AI, Computing, Networks, Data & Security, and Converging Technologies, which we convey collectively to ship sustainability transformation. Fujitsu Limited (TSE:6702) reported consolidated revenues of three.6 trillion yen (US$23 billion) for the fiscal yr ended March 31, 2025 and stays the highest digital providers firm in Japan by market share. Find out extra: global.fujitsu

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