According to PR TIMES, Tokyo-based EV charging operator Terra Charge has signed on as a founding member of MASA (Mobility Alliance for Sustainable Abundance), a cross-industry consortium established on July 9, 2026 to explore how carbon-reduction outcomes from mobility and logistics activity can be issued and traded as environmental value.
MASA says it will pursue three workstreams: testing mechanisms for issuing and circulating environmental value from mobility-sector CO2 cuts — with an emphasis on insetting, alongside offset routes such as voluntary carbon credits, Japan’s J-Credit scheme, the Joint Crediting Mechanism, and compliance with the GX-ETS emissions trading scheme; publishing insights on decarbonization policy and practice for industry and government decision-makers; and, together with member companies and academic partners, developing methodologies for how mobility-related CO2 reductions can be issued, attributed and transferred as environmental value.
Terra Charge frames its participation around its charging-infrastructure track record: citing a Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry goal of 300,000 EV charging ports nationwide by 2030 against roughly 68,000 installed today, the company notes it has deployed over 35,000 ports in three years and ten months and says it will contribute this operational base and know-how to MASA’s efforts on mobility emissions reduction and new environmental-value creation.
Carbon Market Context
- MASA’s stated scope includes compliance with Japan’s GX-ETS emissions trading scheme. That scheme sits within the wider GX League framework, which has continued to build out its structure this year — opening recruitment in March for a new “GX Future League” membership tier and releasing working-group findings on emissions-market design, alongside separate GX League output on workforce development for the transition.
Source
- テラチャージ、業界横断コンソーシアム【MASA(Mobility Alliance for Sust…PR TIMES — 検索「カーボンクレジット」(企業リリース), published 2026-07-09