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- The Solar Powered Lantern Project: “Lighting a Billion Lives”
The Solar Powered Lantern Project: “Lighting a Billion Lives”
This project, which provides solar powered lanterns to villages in India without access to electricity, is the work of Rajendra Pachauri, the chairman of the Nobel-prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and director general of India’s TERI. In Japan, it seeks supporters through the Gaia Initiative, a non-profit organization.
Yokogawa, which has a subsidiary in India, contributed enough lanterns for one village during 2009. It has helped to both combat global warming through the use of renewable energy sources and support its local community.*
Details of Yokogawa’s contribution
Location: Pachpadi village, Thanagazi block, Alwar district, state of Rajasthan
Households: 62
Population: 600
Replacing the kerosene lamps previously in use with solar powered lanterns will reduce CO2 emissions by roughly 1.45 tons per lantern over ten years, or some 72.5 tons for the entire village.
Lighting a Billion Lives Supporter Certificate
At a September 7, 2009 ceremony in Tokyo to present certificates to supporters, Yokogawa received a corporate supporter certificate from Dr. Pachauri.
- front row from left:
- Tomoyo Nonaka,
Representative Director of the Gaia Initiative - Dr. Rajendra Pachauri,
Director General of India’s TERI and Chairman of the IPCC - Shigefumi Matsuzawa,
Governor of Kanagawa Prefecture - back row:
- Yokogawa’s Director Yagi
- Corporate Citizenship Coordinator Shozugawa.
- * Yokogawa’s donation was made through Kanagawa prefecture, following a request from the prefecture to the company offices.
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