The Ministry of the Environment and the Global Environmental Forum have selected the winners of the 12th Environmental Communication Awards, which are given for outstanding efforts in environmental communication. The award ceremony was held on March 16, 2009. In the environmental reports category, the grand prize for environmental reporting was given to Ricoh Co., the grand prize for sustainability reporting to Teijin Ltd., and the grand prize for measures against global warming to Toshiba Corp. In other categories, the grand prizes in the environmental activity reports category and in the environmental television spots category were awarded to Sugar & Spice Modeling Agency and Sumitomo Forestry Co., respectively.