ESG INVESTING

November 2, 2020
Part of the Nichibei Global Talks Video Series

Investors are increasingly paying attention to how companies are addressing Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG) factors. On October 26, 2020, Prime Minister Suga announced Japan’s aim to achieve zero carbon emissions by 2050. “This is expected to greatly transform the Japanese economy,” said Mari Yoshitaka, Ph.D., of Mitsubishi UFJ Research and Consulting Co., Ltd., who joins Billy Nauman of Financial Times in this episode on ESG investing and the important role that U.S. and Japanese private companies and financial institutions can play to create a new, sustainable economic market. Though still in the early stages of development, ESG investing has become increasingly popular in the United States and Japan. The dialogue addresses ESG investment trends in the two markets, government policies affecting those trends, impact of COVID-19, examples of U.S. and Japanese companies ranking high in terms of ESG, shared challenges regarding ESG data disclosure and accuracy, and more.

(動画内のスライドの日本語版はこちらです）： Japanese language slides

Billy Nauman Reporter, Financial Times Billy Nauman is a reporter with the Financial Times and producer of Moral Money, the new digital platform and newsletter from the FT featuring news and analysis about the fast-expanding world of socially responsible business, sustainable finance, impact investing, environmental, social and governance (ESG) trends. Before joining Moral Money, Nauman worked in the FT’s Specialist division for nine years as a reporter and editor. Most recently, he was Managing Editor of FundFire, the FT’s daily publication covering the U.S. institutional investment industry.

Mari Yoshitaka Principal Sustainability Strategist, Deputy General Manager of Corporate Planning Dept., Mitsubishi UFJ Research and Consulting Co., Ltd. (MURC) Mari Yoshitaka, Ph.D., is Principal Sustainability Strategist, Deputy General Manager of Corporate Planning Dept., Mitsubishi UFJ Research and Consulting Co., Ltd. (MURC). In 2000, Yoshitaka joined Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities to start up the Clean Energy Finance Committee, and transferred to MURC in May 2020. Her area of expertise is climate change policy, especially climate finance and mitigation projects, in the fields of ESG investment and SDGs business. Yoshitaka is a member of the UN Women-We Empower Japan Advisory Group and the Global Environment Committee of Central Environment Council. .

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plus one new post shinki in charge of expo 2025- vital to unite celebrations of rising sun - reiwa era-  in every way that corona-beaten olympics could not

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the First Innovation Forum in the WHO Western Pacific Region (15-17 September 2020) aims to provide policy support to countries on innovation to identify, test and advance innovative approaches to pressing health problems including COVID-19.

During the 3-day virtual event, high-level policymakers and thought leaders will discuss how innovation can help countries to future-proof their health systems, and the role of WHO in supporting them. The interactive panel sessions will provide an opportunity to discuss key topics such as innovation for healthy life course, environment for health, impact-driven solutions, and harnessing digital tools for health.

Forum objectives: 

1. Lay out a vision for innovation in health systems with societies adapting to the challenges of climate change, health security, ageing populations, chronic disease, and the aftermath of COVID-19
2. Explore ways in which WHO could set up a platform to assist Member States to conceptualize innovative solutions, put them into action, apply them at scale, and sustain them

Participants:

1. Top-level policymakers who make decisions on research, development and innovation
2. Senior managers and public health practitioners who generate and manage innovation projects
3. Advisers,experts, and thought leaders in areas relating to innovation who can support WHO and Member States (non-health official participants)
4. Community leaders, representatives of civil society, academia, professional associations, media and private sector.
5. General public from the Western Pacific with interest in public health and innovation.

Confirmed speakers (Full list of speakers and short bios can be found in the programme here):

• Samira Asma, Assistant Director-General, WHO
• Seth Berkley, CEO, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance
• Sandro Galea, Dean, Boston University School of Public Health; Chair, Emergency Task Force on Coronavirus & Equity, Massachusetts Public Health Association
• Richard Horton, Editor-in-Chief, The Lancet
• Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner, Co-founder and Director, Jo-Jikum
• Ilona Kickbusch, Founding Director and Chair, Global Health Centre at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva
• Shiao-yin Kuik, Co-founder and Director, The Thought Collective
• Yinuo Li, China Country Director, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

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i am deeply saddened that the most inspirational peoples in my wanderings around earth - the japanese and young tech wizards inspired by jack ma - can no longer celebrate a grand reunion in tokyo july 2020 - risks of 21 being doable are mounting as we see complete void in us transparency of leadership on human health during election year

how about making the next best thing - searches for community-loving innovations japan or ma either have already shared with us or may do next in leaping towards the sdg worlprivilleged to witness 3 live performances of jack ma 2016 united nations new york, 2017 gateway 17 detroit and toronto- first saw him in a webinar in 2008

my family japan learning curve strted 1962 when dad brough back a pocket calculator and a survey of japan published in the economist

in schools at that time a slide ruler was the most efficient maths tool- dads question what will happen to statisticians if this calculator turns into a trillin times more powerful computing tool 20 yearslater we publisged 2025 report- here our some of our hopes if all goes sustaibly well 2025 versus 1984
sea change in education
sea channge in communityhealth and finance
love of each others communities since replicating community service solutions as sustainable local businesses will value 90% of innovations sdg racing people will need

at this stage the english language broadcasting of japan is a tour de force- it shows thousands of community services the japanese love and which any empathic community might adapt to be their own communal celebration

trillion dollar maths puzzle - we can only see data from tested world which as march 21 incidents of tests in thousands of humans - active 292, dead13, recovered 91 seems to be - typical questions discussed at economisthealth.com - if there are 10 times more untested cases does this mean death rate reduces from just over 4% to 0.4% - what further questions arise from march 21 with about 60% unrecovered - 13 days earlier data was showing about 60% recovered- so we have the issue that as the world does more testing its quite hard to understand how much recovery time varies for those that get severely ill but i cant find a way to predict from this data that a global olympics will be safe to hold unless everywhere ups its testing to korean or chinese levels of efficiency which wont happen in least developed countries without infrastructure or developed countries where testers make huge profits because testing inst normall a gov service

welcome discussion chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk - over at least 60 years, no country has given my family tree more opportunities to explore the world more than japan so both for youth and japan i dream of the best possible olympics outcome

of the g20 i rate abe -his launch of osaka big data track and society 5.0) as way more trustworthy on sdgs than any of the western leaders- jury still out on some of the rest- among mayors every mayor of a smart city should want to frienk ms koike on a basis of transparency and trust living up to smithian standards

If you care about two out of 3 lives mattering who are asian, nearly 60 years of miracles mapping around japan from 1962 are worth replaying -that's when my father norman macrae aged 39 was privileged to write his first signed survey in The Economist (the first 2 quarter of dad's 80+ years of life had been spent writing unsigned leaders in the economist after serving as teenager in world war 2 navigating air places uk bomber command region modern day bangladesh/myanmar - following his father who worked for british diplomatic services around embassies in midst of conflict - eg mostow of stalin 1934, last adriatic port jews used to escape hitler 1938 )

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Before we get to the list of miracles look at what has happened to japan in the fisrt year(s) of its new reiwa emperor era- planned  was 40 million tourists with olympics ganes as peace-loving centrepiece ; apart from the olympic most tourism celebrated comunity hosts sme busienesses- all being decimated by the virus; japan is uniquely interesting as a nation as unlike other places run by a majority of elders its recruiting youth from other countries to deliver many of its frontline logistics services- this pan asean development plan has also been shattered; since japan loves sports for the right reason - community building not just big corporate noise - gthe ebst outcome would be the olympics beged asians to tale a majoity share of running futire olympics- this would be good for all four of the next hosts if the mayors of tokyo beijing milan and paris chatted about it- and it would be a great opportutity for womens lives matter to exorciose all the sexual predators - and ban ki-moon who is in the middle of 3 world chnaing movement cliate adatoability, curriculum of worldwide youth and teachers civic engagement , ethics dorectirate of teh olympocs could appoint a supersgtar panel of lives matter - eg the wike of kobe (mo0re at www.kobe.mba), manny pacquaio, and since tennis has always been the emeperor family's facoriote sport as well some uk royals, why not let japan and wimbledon select which tennis superstars can bridge retoremengt with linking in youth as the sddg generation

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Jack Ma has chosen Tokyo Olympics to relaunch Olympics as sports, fashion, arts for all communities
Questions on coalitions: linking other sdg events and girls most valued livelihood curricula
who will sponsor  curricula of poorest billion girls hold up half the sky:
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join campaign W - sack every economist from every project commissioned by gov who cant show how his numbers are orbiting towards a world valuing women as much as men - rsvp chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk

join campaign health- sack any nations cabinet who cant explain why the economic risk to sme economes was more for new corona than old flu- in other words was the global travel worth harming hundreds of millions family and sme businesses

how does the tokyo olympics continue developing osaka track (big data local) and society 5.0 from japan g7 and ewtp from china G7 and relay forward to cop26 glasgow and connect supercity olympic mayors of toky0 2020 beijing 2022 paris 2024 milan 2026 la 2028- can uniqlo become the link between all these events and designing valuetrie for garment workers- whats the connection of the IR4 hub in tokyo with its sister hubs in capital of idia china and california as well as geneva hq and 3000 youth global shapers hubs
-wheres the interaction between the shapers hubs and the 2 world economic forum davos and summer china champion and UNGA september - and other world sdg youth scholars eg USUN of soris and MIT-Oxford-Tsinghua of Schwarzman- where's the connection between the 3 most responsible ny funds blackstone blackrock bloomberg and cop26 glasgow adam smith schoiars and whether brexit maps are as sdg as possible


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