Euglena Co., Ltd. summarizes the true intentions of elementary school students regarding global warming
The web video "I asked future adults" was released today on July 23!
～ Aiming to be a company for children living in the future ～

Euglena Co., Ltd.

　Euglena Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Minato-ku, Tokyo, President: Mitsuru Izumo) interviewed elementary school students about global warming and asked the adults of the future a web video that summarizes their true intentions. We are pleased to announce that "." Will be published on our website and YouTube on July 23, 2019 ^{* 1 (Tuesday).}​
* 1: July 23 is the day when 41.1 ℃ was observed in Kumagaya City, Saitama Prefecture in 2018, breaking the highest temperature record in the history of observation in Japan.

Interview with a child

　It has been about three and a half years ^{since the Paris Agreement * 2} for the prevention of global warming was adopted in December 2015. Toward the goal of the Paris Agreement, "Aiming for virtually zero greenhouse gas emissions in the second half of this century," we are Japan's first biojet that uses microalgae Euglena (Japanese name: Euglena) and waste cooking oil as its main raw materials.・ The diesel fuel production demonstration plant was completed in October 2018 in Yokohama City. In addition, we declared "GREEN OIL JAPAN" with the slogan "Making Japan a developed country for biofuels", established a commercial production system to produce 250,000 KL / year of biofuels by 2025, and biofuels by 2030. We aim to achieve a supply of 1 million KL / year of fuel.
　And this time, as a mindset to tackle global warming prevention, we interviewed the web video "What kind of feelings do children who will bear the future have about environmental problems such as global warming? I asked future adults. "
　"Which of the world we are living in now or the world of the future can be happy?" "Why do adults do things that affect the world of children?" Watch the video to see the answers from the children to these questions.
　In addition, based on our management philosophy of "Health for people and the earth," we aim to be a company for children living in the future, such as efforts to prevent global warming through the biofuel business. * 2: An agreement that establishes an international framework for global warming countermeasures after 2020, in which all countries, regardless of developed or developing countries, participate.
　The details are as follows.

About the webvideo "I asked future adults."

Title　: "I asked future adults."
Release date: Tuesday, July 23, 2019
Cast: Akihiko Nagata, Executive Vice President, Euglena Co., Ltd.
　　　　4 elementary school students in Tokyo (all 5th grade elementary school students)
Shooting date: Saturday, June 1, 2019

<About Euglena Co., Ltd.>
In 2005, we succeeded in establishing the world's first edible outdoor mass culture technology for the Euglena In addition to developing and selling functional foods and cosmetics that utilize the Euglena and Chlorella produced on Ishigaki Island, we are also conducting research toward the production of biofuels. Euglena GENKI Program, which has been in operation since 2014 to deliver Euglena cookies with abundant nutrients to children in Bangladesh, will be expanded to all group products including cosmetics from April 2019. Listed on TSE Mothers in December 2012. TSE First Section market change in December 2014. The management philosophy is "to make people and the earth healthy".
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