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Symposium explores ESG’s role toward a zero-emissions 2050
Joe Muntal
Contributing writer
On May 13, The Japan Times hosted a symposium focused on environmental, social and governance criteria for business operations. Collectively...
Frameworks for addressing deforestation are increasing
Maiko Muraoka
Contributing writer
CDP (formerly the Carbon Disclosure Project) Japan conducted an online session on April 6 to present its latest reports about...
IMF has a bold climate change plan, but it faces many hurdles
Anthony Rowley
Contributing writer
Climate change, IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva has warned, is emerging as a “greater threat” than the COVID-19 pandemic, and...
Japan Climate Initiative urges government to halve its emissions by 2030
Japan Climate Initiative released a message titled “Calling for an Ambitious 2030 Target for Japan to Realize the Paris Agreement...
Japan’s decarbonization vision will take work and innovation
Sumiko Takeuchi
visiting professor
Last October, Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga pledged to cut Japan’s greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2050. Europe has...
Experts weigh Japan and Italy’s optimism about hydrogen
Jacob Reed
Contributing writer
Developing renewable solutions for ever-increasing energy demands is one of the pillars of sustainability. In a concerted effort to move...
Green finance: The quiet revolution of sustainable bonds
Timothy Schultz
Contributing writer
Last month in Tokyo, a group of environmental radicals got together and discussed how they might save the world. Except...
How the pandemic will change artists’ spaces, choices and voices
Jacob Reed
contributing writer
On Jan. 28, the final part of a webinar series on contemporary art after the coronavirus was hosted by the...
With Seino service, sell your excess stuff when you move
Maiko Muraoka
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
People who are moving tend to wonder what to do with all the items they find they don’t need. Sometimes...
Mymizu’s water app just first step to ending plastic waste
Joe Muntal
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
From conservation to climate change, the environmental challenges of our times are daunting and can seem distant from our everyday...
Evonne Yiu, U.N. researcher and champion of forests and sea
Timothy Schultz
Contributing writer
The early morning sea off Ishikawa Prefecture was gentle, the fisherman sitting casually at the boat’s bow. They were idling...
With oceans facing increasing risks, no nation is an island
Jacob Reed
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Among global environmental issues, the sustainable use of the seas is of paramount importance. About 2.4 billion people, 40 percent...
