climate reports japan

 from japan times

3. Climate change is already here Japan is exceptionally vulnerable to climate change. The climate crisis is already affecting everything from the strength of typhoons and flooding to the timing of the cherry blossoms and autumn leaves, Eric Margolis explains in the latest Deep Dive podcast. With weather-related disasters predicted to inflict more damage more often, startups are piling into disaster prevention and reduction, leveraging their strength in tech and their ability to quickly develop goods and services to address needs in afflicted areas.  Deep Dive podcast, Episode 104: How Japan is already being impacted by climate change | THE JAPAN TIMES And no region knows more about Japan’s vulnerability to calamities than Tohoku, which bore the brunt of the triple disaster of March 2011. A number of companies around the Miyagi capital of Sendai are launching disaster tech businesses — such as apps to track people at evacuation shelters and relief supplies — thanks to initiatives by the city, the Kahoku Shimpo reports. But weather-related disasters are not the only ecological threat Japan faces. French and Japanese researchers are analyzing samples from the archipelago’s coastal waters to study how microplastics impact ecosystems, the food chain and human health. Little is known about the so-called plastisphere, where microorganisms live among discarded plastic, including whether some of the bacteria that thrive there could act as vectors for disease.
4. Wind power picks up speed While Japan remains overwhelmingly reliant on fossil fuels, here are five recent signs that wind power is gaining traction in the country and its boardrooms: Japan’s industry ministry will open bidding within months for an area off Akita, in northern Japan, for the development of an offshore wind farm. It also plans to designate four more “promising areas” as potential future sites for such facilities. Scottish utility SSE, one of the companies behind the world’s largest offshore wind park, has formed a joint venture with Pacifico Energy in Japan, gaining a foothold in one of the most promising markets for offshore wind.  Japan start-up uses turbine to harness typhoon energy | REUTERS Trading house Mitsubishi Corp. has invested in a massive wind power plant project in Laos to deliver electricity to Vietnam, in what would be the biggest onshore wind farm in Southeast Asia. Oil wholesaler Eneos said last month it will acquire Tokyo-based Japan Renewable Energy, which has know-how in wind and solar power generation, for around ¥200 billion. Eneos aims to cut CO2 emissions from its operations to effectively zero by 2040. In typhoon-prone Japan, a start-up called Challenergy has designed a turbine that works in cyclonic conditions, which typically shut down most wind installations, turning storms into a potential energy source.

esg zoom 10/14

growth into culture, sustainability in funds

in last 6 years esg ne of greatest societal change waves in japan -nicholas benes

country tending to esg from opposite directions

all fund managers want to work for gpaf

japan pension fund - one of largest in world started adopting sdgs and esg stakeholder model 2015

- japan off site training previously weak so gap for esd trainers

governance capabilities vary vastly -gov code to lgt

3 different legal structures ere for gov - consequence hard 

non profit gcd trains both coroporate and institutions - go to data

access to data on esgs will be much more scrutinised in both japan and abroad- worldwide forward challenges to big conanies dont vary that much - is board inbtune with exp risks and how samrt is esg racking in the model

minako asks has roubdtable process movedon --goldberg sceptism brt statement stakeholder capitalismdue to olitics- other thing a few us journalists joining beat covering esg - journal yesteday sustainability report shareholder vs stakeholder primacy

nick brt statement reported but no immediate actions

ruben what is european view of stakeholde captalism -uk company law incude thinking impact on stakeholders- financial reporting cuncl slowly involved- so brt mainstemed esg a bit but stlill slow

-nick you said g is most impornt of esg becuae of role in governance in your region 

europe process pefectionist not always practical

what is one thing that can unite esg practitioners at cop26 nov21 glasgow remembering that scots and italains value sme networks much more than rest of europe/ do esg experts see any overlap with un artificial intel tech itu #aiforgood - ie where does deep data openness impact expoential risk  transparency at level of integrating market purpose

us problem big corporate build hi level multidisciplinary teams to feed into constant board level decision-mking - process involves such huge ongoing change few people really do it - part of 25 year long failure to audit intangibkes systemically

finsbury global hering includes dc mmerger hq - japan society great meeting- minako in tok