The City of Hino and Konica Minolta, Inc. have concluded a comprehensive cooperation agreement for promoting the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to share the targets for attaining the SDGs, to achieve the SDGs through cooperation, to solve social and local issues in various fields, and to build an environment for open innovation.
Hino, a suburban city in the west of metropolitan Tokyo, has a population of around 190,000 and is home to one of Konica Minolta’s major R&D facilities.
The City of Hino, which was selected as one of the SDGs FutureCities in 2019, aims to develop a “city focused on co-creating quality of life (QOL) through ‘industrialisation’ of life- and environment-related issues through communication.” Konica Minolta said it aims to develop businesses with insight into implicit challenges on social issues from the viewpoint of the SDGs in its medium-term business plan “SHINKA 2019.” The City of Hino and Konica Minolta have cooperated over the years by sharing the vision to solve social challenges from different standpoints.
With the selection of the City of Hino as one of the SDGs FutureCities marking a new beginning, the City of Hino and Konica Minolta will cooperate in promoting the SDGs. Efforts will be accelerated to achieve a sustainable society by spreading the SDGs and promoting awareness about the SDGs through cooperation and co-creation regarding social issues in many fields.
The City of Hino and Konica Minolta will closely cooperate to effectively utilise their resources, to promote efforts to solve social challenges through communication and cooperation among various local stakeholders, to attain the City of Hino’s targets as one of the SDGs FutureCities, and to promote the creation of a local environment for open innovation.
