Kawasaki City becomes first dekokatsu subsidy municipality for promoting decarbonization lifestyle promotion project
KAWASAKI, Japan, September 11, 2025 – (JCN Newswire via SeaPRwire.com) – Kawasaki City and Fujitsu Limited today announced that the Kawasaki City decarbonization lifestyle behavioral change promotion project, which aims to achieve a decarbonized society by encouraging citizen behavioral change, has been selected to receive the dekokatsu [1] subsidy from Japan’s Ministry of the Environment (MOE). This marks the first time a Japanese municipality has been awarded this significant subsidy, which aims to support projects with sustainable environmental conservation effects, such as greenhouse gas reduction, and improvements in daily life through changes in citizens’ lifestyles. The award was initially granted in July.As an enhanced version of the existing project, Kawasaki City and Fujitsu will collaborate with Kawasaki Frontale (a soccer club originally established by Fujitsu) to launch new initiatives including the collection and recycling of used clothing and the visualization of citizens’ CO2 reduction contrib…