OKI takes part in Green Wave 2010

Between May 15 and 22, OKI employees will participate in activities to help maintain forests in Shizuoka and Nagano prefectures, where the company has its main manufacturing facilities.

Declaring May 22 of each year the International Day for Biological Diversity, the United Nations encourages events commemorating the day all over the world. On this day, the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity has also called for a Green Wave to take place at 10:00 a.m. As part of this event, children and youth around the world will plant and water trees.

The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism and the Forestry Agency have declared the two-month period from March 1 through May 31 to be Green Wave 2010, calling for companies and organizations to take part in tree-planting activities. Green Wave activities seek to strengthen awareness of biodiversity and to promote sustainable practices and the conservation of biodiversity. These activities are also intended to build momentum toward the 10th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP10), scheduled to be held in Aichi Prefecture, Japan, in October 2010.

OKI plans to plant trees in Komoro City on May 22, the International Day for Biological Diversity. Based on a "Forest Foster Parent" agreement with Komoro City concluded in 2005, the company has maintained forests within the city for the past five years.