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Japan embraces impact investing in pursuit of a 'new form of capitalism'
03 November 2023Prime minister Fumio Kishida is on a mission to harness impact investment to spur economic growth in Japan. How might it transform the market, asks Michael Hurley
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Transition 'should be better captured in financed emissions metrics'
20 October 2023Current approaches to calculate so-called 'financed emissions' risk missing the potential future emissions reductions and penalising financial institutions that provide such capital, argues Satoshi Ikeda, chief sustainable finance officer at the Financial Services Agency (FSA).
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Japanese regulator readies guidance to spur impact investment in start-ups
19 October 2023From Michael Hurley in Tokyo
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Japan sets timeline for disclosure standards based on ISSB work
02 March 2023Japanese sustainability disclosure standards based on international efforts will be ready in draft form by April 2024, with final standards published up to a year later, according to the body tasked with developing the work.
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Japan publishes ground-breaking ESG data, ratings 'code of conduct'
16 December 2022The Japan Financial Services Agency (FSA) has published the first voluntary 'code of conduct' in the world for environmental, social and governance (ESG) data and evaluation providers...
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AIGCC shareholder resolution guide launched to tackle legal obstacles
24 November 2022The AIGCC and ClientEarth has launched guidance for investors on climate-related shareholder resolutions, to help them navigate regional variances in legal requirements investors say can "make it hard" to pass resolutions.
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FSA: NGFS climate scenarios should improve data use
12 September 2022A key issue "hindering" the expansion of the NGFS climate models is their reliance on some global datasets that are not necessarily applicable to Japanese institutions...
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Don't rush into regulating data providers, says Japan's FSA
24 August 2022Supervisors should not rush into regulating data providers while work to understand their "increasingly important" role in capital markets is ongoing, said Satoshi Ikeda, chief sustainable finance officer of the Japanese Financial Services Agency (FSA).
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Japanese banks' portfolios misaligned with Paris Agreement, says 2DII
23 August 2022Japanese banks' loan books are misaligned with the Paris Agreement, said a paper written by the 2 Degrees Investing Initiative (2DII) and released by the Financial Services Agency (FSA)'s Finance Research Center.
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Global capital requirement for climate risks is crucial for transition
29 June 2022Japanese regulator recommends framing global warming as "a time bomb" to spur action
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