Protect the Natural Environment

The natural environment is the basis of all life and people’s livelihoods. It is also the premise of our envisioned sustainable society in which people can live safely and with a sense of security while also taking on bold challenges. Tokio Marine Group started planting mangroves in 1999, subsequently making the Mangrove Planting 100-Year Declaration in 2007 and the Mangrove-based Value Co-creation 100-Year Declaration in 2019. It is one of the symbolic projects of the Group, and we work together with stakeholders to continue co-creating value through mangrove planting for 100 years.

Following the adoption of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework in December 2022 and the release of the recommendations of the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) in September 2023, it has become an urgent task for companies to preserve natural capital and biodiversity. Toward creating a society in harmony with nature by 2050, Tokio Marine Group has also been working to enhance its initiatives to protect the natural environment through its business activities, from the provision of products and services to investment and financing, as well as corporate citizenship activities.

The planting of mangroves by Tokio Marine & Nichido was first regarded as a corporate citizenship activity for 10 years since its launch in 1999. Since 2009, it has evolved into the customer-participating, environment-conscious Green Gift Project for our insurance products based on the concept of undertaking eco activities together with customers.

Under this project, when a customer chooses web-based insurance contracts (clauses) on its website rather than a paper-based contract in brochure form, the company donates funds corresponding to a portion of the costs of the reduction in paper used to environmental NPOs and NGOs. Such funds are then used for mangrove planting overseas and environmental protection activities in Japan, including activities to protect the sea and forests, such as the protection and restoration of eelgrass beds as well as collaborative afforestation efforts in Aki City, Kochi Prefecture. Customers’ selection of the web policy option leads to the conservation of paper resources. Additionally, it allows the company to reduce all environmental footprints related to the manufacture and transportation of paper, as well as the mailing of policies to customers and disposal of policies after expiry.