The European branch of world's largest car maker, Toyota today became the first four wheeler manufacturer to join the Climate Neutral Network (CN Net), a UN initiative bringing together organisations pledging to reduce carbon emissions.
Toyota Motor Europe is one of the six companies to join CN Net today, a web-based network which impresses upon governments, local authorities, private companies and individuals to make large carbon cuts.
"The participation of a major company like Toyota is a sign that private companies are increasingly playing their part on the road to a low-carbon society," the Deputy Executive Director of United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Angela Cropper said.
Toyota has sold more than 1.5 million hybrid cars worldwide. The five other companies which joined the CN Net today along with Toyota are the Carbon Association of Australasia (Australia), CO2focus (Norway), EcoSecurities (UK), Green Cabs (New Zealand) and Wairau River Wines (New Zealand).
Toyota Motor Europe will share ideas with CN Net community for lowering carbon's impact on the environment.
Meanwhile, UNEP which is spearheading the initiative has welcomed the launch of an innovative mobile laboratory in the Netherlands to support the international response to environmental disasters.
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The Environment Assessment Module (EAM) can be rapidly deployed to disasters that involve hazardous substances, along with two fully-equipped off-road vehicles and the relevant technical expertise.
"This rapidly deployable mobile laboratory will help us to fulfil the urgent need to address environmental emergencies from their onset," Cropper said.