Toyota Fails to Reply to Letter from World Advocacy Organizations by Deadline

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GLOBAL — Yesterday was the deadline for world automaker Toyota to reply to the letter despatched by advocacy organizations on Nov. 21, urging the automaker to scale back emissions and fight the local weather disaster.

The letter urges the automaker to scale back its greenhouse fuel emissions to be in step with Paris Settlement targets, cease its dangerous lobbying in opposition to local weather and clear air insurance policies, and cease funding politicians that deny local weather change.

In response to Toyota’s silence to the worldwide letter, Sierra Membership Clear Transportation for All Director Katherine García issued the next assertion:

“We’re sounding the alarm with this world letter concerning the rising local weather inaction and political radicalization of Toyota.

“As a substitute of charting a path ahead that invests in electrical automobiles and union jobs, the automaker is in cahoots with an anti-climate, anti-job administration that’s set on dragging us backwards, leaving Individuals to drive dirtier vehicles and breathe dirtier air.”

Background on Toyota’s dismal file on local weather: 

• Toyota at the moment solely has one totally electrical automobile, the BZ4X, on the market within the U.S.
• Toyota has lobbied to rollback federal automobile air pollution requirements, federal EV incentives, and state clear automobile requirements.
• The automaker has an extended historical past of partaking in heavy greenwashing in its advertising and marketing, utilizing the phrases “Past Zero” and “electrified” to lump collectively typical hybrid automobiles that solely run on fossil fuels.
• Hollywood’s main sustainability group not too long ago reduce ties with Toyota as its sponsor.

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