TARGET: CANON INC. CEO AND CHAIRMAN FUJIO MITARAI
Canon Inc. needs little introduction.
It’s one of the world’s most trusted brands – particularly with nature and wildlife photographers. Its corporate philosophy of kyosei translates to “living and working together for the common good.”
Which is why it’s shocking that the Canon Institute of Global Studies (CIGS), a non-profit think tank instituted in 2008 and Chaired by Canon Inc.’s CEO, actively advocates climate denial.
CIGS researchers have labeled the climate crisis “liberal propaganda,” termed environmental campaigns as “evil” and even called climate activist Greta Thunberg a “communist.”
Recently, CIGS Research Director Taishi Sugiyama released a book for schoolchildren that downplays the climate crisis. One of his other publications, Decarbonization is full of lies, contains a chapter titled, “Net zero is a song to ruin the country.”
What’s worse, these researchers also sit on powerful committees that can influence Japan’s climate policies.
Canon Inc. has a reach that can genuinely inspire climate action amongst its millions of customers.
It has a reputation to protect and if enough of us speak up, it has to listen.
Join us in asking Canon CEO Fujio Mitarai to truly embrace kyosei by ending CIGS’s climate denial.
We’ll deliver your name when we reach 10,000 signatures, so join us today!
References :
- Corporate Philosophy & Spirit | Canon Global
- Greta Thunberg banished from the COP by “turning” from the environmental movement to communism
- “Zero CO2” policy destroys national economy
- Global warming from the age of 15 Factfulness that schools do not teach
- “Decarbonization” is full of lies
To: Canon Inc. CEO and Chairman Fujio Mitarai
From: [Your Name]Dear Mr. Mitarai,
Your company, Canon Inc., is one of the best-known and most respected companies around the world. Coupled with your forward-looking philosophy of kyosei, you have the real power to change the world for the better.
However, I am writing to you to express my deep concern that the Canon think tank, the Canon Institute for Global Studies (CIGS), of which you are Chairman of the Board of Supervisors, is acting as a platform for climate denial and delay. Its research directors, such as Taishi Sugiyama, are leveraging the Canon brand to paint the climate crisis as “fake news” and decarbonization as a lie.
We are calling on you, as CEO and Chairman of Canon Inc., and Chairman of the Board of Supervisors at the Canon Institute for Global Studies, to take action and ensure the Institute lives up to Canon’s values.
We are calling on you to withdraw support for CIGS, in the first instance, until publications by its research directors, which deny the science of climate change, are removed from sale. This must start with Mr. Sugiyama’s publication targeting children, Global warming from the age of 15. Factfulness not taught at school.
We further ask you to issue a public statement that you in no way endorse the anti-science and pro-fossil fuel views of the think tank, and will undertake a public review of the failures of governance that have allowed its brand to be used as a platform for these extreme views.
Canon’s stake in nature is great. We ask you to take action in line with your values to help protect them for this generation and the next.
With hope,
