JERA
Hisahide Okuda,
President, Director, CEO, and COO
Tackle global energy issues with diverse options
JERA is building a business model to create a clean energy platform that combines low-carbon thermal power and renewables. Thermal power is essential to compensate for fluctuations in output from renewable power sources. JERA will incorporate hydrogen and ammonia as fuel for thermal power generation to shrink its carbon footprint. As part of this commitment, JERA decided in April 2025 to invest in the Blue Point low-carbon ammonia production project in Ascension Parish, Louisiana in partnership with CF Industries Holdings and Mitsui & Co. JERA is thus moving ahead with fuel substitution on a commercial basis. It is committed to achieving energy sustainability, affordability, and stability by combing liquefied natural gas, hydrogen, ammonia, and renewables to meet needs in each nation and region. By achieving net-zero by 2050, JERA will contribute to the establishment of a sustainable society.
NYK Line
Takaya Soga,
President
Contribute to decarbonizing global supply chains
The NYK Group, in alignment with the Paris Agreement’s 1.5°C goal, is targeting a 45% reduction in Scope 1 and 2 emissions by fiscal 2030 and the achievement of net-zero emissions by fiscal 2050. It is striving to maximize energy efficiency and to adopt fuels of lower carbon intensity. The NYK Group used 250,000 tons of low carbon intensity biodiesel fuel, for example, in fiscal 2024. Ammonia is a zero-emission fuel, and the NYK Group began operating the world’s first commercial-use ammonia-fueled vessel in 2024. It ensures onboard and peripheral safety by overcoming ammonia’s unique toxicity through the establishment of both vessel design and vessel operation procedures. The NYK Group is steadily advancing its decarbonization efforts, contributing to the reduction of Scope 3 emissions at customers and to the broader decarbonization of society.
* https://www.nyk.com/english/sustainability/envi/decarbonization/
EY
Tokuya Takizawa,
Japan Chief Sustainability Officer
Shape the future of a new economy
EY is committed to driving impact for a new economy—one where business, people, and planet thrive. Over the past four years, EY has achieved a 40% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, including a 42% drop in Scope 3 travel emissions. EY aims to halve emissions by fiscal 2030 and reduce them by 90% by fiscal 2050, both against a fiscal 2019 baseline. This reflects a commitment to sustained reductions, supported by technology, data, and collaboration. Teams at EY help clients create value through sustainability while helping create value for business. EY has differentiated its offerings with a broad spectrum of sustainability services, from strategy through execution, anchored in science, harnessing technology, data, and ecosystem collaboration. This enables organizations to help protect and create value for all stakeholders and build a better working world.
Osaka Gas
Masataka Fujiwara,
President
Demonstrate methanation at Expo 2025
Osaka Gas (Daigas Group) released a roadmap in February 2025, Energy Transition 2050, for eliminating net emissions of carbon by 2050. A central emphasis in that roadmap is on eliminating carbon emissions in generating thermal energy by adopting e-methane, a hydrogen carrier, as fuel. E-methane is carbon neutral in that it releases no more carbon when burned than when it is produced. The Daigas Group conducted a methanation demonstration at Expo 2025, in Osaka, in which it supplied e-methane to the expo guest house. It produced the e-methane by combining carbon dioxide from food waste gathered at the site with hydrogen. The demonstration resonated with the expo theme of Designing Future Society for Our Lives, and it has lent momentum to the group’s commitment to commercializing e-methane as city gas.
e-dash
Toma Yamasaki,
Chief Executive Officer
Tackle GX as a stakeholder hub
e-dash is a climate-tech start-up established in 2022 with the mission of accelerating the transition to decarbonization. To help companies of all sizes address their core responsibility for curtailing climate change, it provides crucial solutions to steer them through a four-step process: visualization of emissions, reporting, emission reduction, and transparent information disclosure. There is high demand from large enterprises for this comprehensive support to tackle their complex needs. e-dash is also the company chosen by the most Japanese financial institutions for that purpose. It works with 220 financial institutions and local governments to support small and medium-sized enterprises. e-dash continues to expand its network of partners in the spirit of advancing the transition to a sustainable society.
* https://e-dash.io (Japanese)
Seven & i Holdings
Nobuyuki Miyaji,
Executive Officer, Head of
Sustainability Development Office
Take concrete steps toward a sustainable future
Management at Seven & i regards climate change and other global environmental issues as challenges that bear directly on the company’s operations. The company has detailed quantitative targets in its environmental declaration Green Challenge 2050 for reducing emissions of carbon dioxide and fulfilling three other priorities by 2050. Seven & i’s stepped-up commitment to reducing carbon emissions has included establishing the subsidiary Seven & i Energy Management to purchase renewable energy. The company recently issued an integrated report, Climate and Nature Disclosures, based on the recommendations of the Taskforce on Climate-related Financial Disclosures and the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures. Seven & i works through its extensive interface with consumers to mobilize support for addressing environmental concerns.
* https://www.7andi.com/en/sustainability/policy/environment_03.html
Rating and Investment Information
Toru Yoshida,
President & CEO
Support GX through financial evaluations
Sustainable finance is increasingly important as concern with social sustainability occasions stepped-up attention to environmental and social issues. Rating and Investment Information (R&I) conducted in 2016 the first external assessment of a public green bond issued by a Japanese entity, and it has since deployed diverse services in connection with sustainable finance evaluations. About 30% of the balance of bonds outstanding in Japan is from industrial sectors known as large greenhouse gas emitters. The Japanese government has designated transition finance a driver in decarbonization efforts, and sustainable finance is thus becoming annually a more-commanding presence. R&I, as an external reviewer, serves that presence in accordance with internationally accepted principles and guidelines. The agency draws on multisectoral business and technological expertise in helping companies tackle decarbonization and other facets of green transformation.
NGK Insulators
Shigeru Kobayashi,
President
Blaze trails in GX with ceramic technology
The NGK Group Vision calls for contributing to carbon neutrality and the realization of a digital society. The company strives to fulfill that vision by tapping unique ceramic technologies in vigorous product development. In the realm of GX, NGK is conducting pilot testing with its honeycomb ceramics for recovering atmospheric carbon dioxide efficiently through direct air capture (DAC) and is developing ceramic membranes for separating hydrogen and other gases. Management at NGK recognizes that advancing GX will require expanded collaboration with other companies and is tackling stepped-up open innovation in that spirit.
ABeam Consulting
Shuhei Toyoshima,
Principal
Heighten corporate value through supply chain sustainability
Companies’ supply chains command greater importance than ever on management agendas in respect to achieving sustainable growth. Underlying that importance are the uncertainty that characterizes the business environment and companies’ mounting responsibility for addressing issues of common concern. ABeam Consulting has abundant experience in steering corporate change at companies in Japan and other Asian nations and in helping clients maximize the value of their output. It accompanies that experience with consulting competence honed through digital transformation; a global network that provides extensive coverage in Asia, the Americas, and Europe; and rich expertise in GX and circular economy aspects of supply chains. ABeam draws on that combination of experience and capabilities in helping heighten economic value, client value, and social value.
Sumitomo Mitsui Auto Service
Koji Aso,
Representative Director, President & CEO
Contribute to achieving sustainable mobility
Climate change, population shrinkage and aging, and geopolitical risk are disrupting global supply chains and obscuring the socioeconomic outlook. Amid that uncertainty, Sumitomo Mitsui Auto Service offers diverse value; for example, providing safe and comfortable mobility that entails minimal environmental burden, supporting individuals who are unable to access conventional mobility easily, contributing to shaping a circular economy that provides for resource recycling, and promoting electrified automotive mobility as a means of distributing electric power sourcing. The company’s mobility service offerings have evolved over the years as the company has addressed diverse customer needs. Sumitomo Mitsui Auto Service has thus operated continuously in the spirit of progressing hand in hand with customers and continues to honor that spirit in the pursuit of lasting growth.
GreenEnergy & Company
Takafumi Suzue,
President
Deploy local solutions through micro GX
GreenEnergy & Company nurtures regional economic sustainability through new Micro GX solutions based on photovoltaic generation and other renewable energies. The company, coordinating with local governments and local companies, puts in place solar power installations owned by individuals and small companies and devises frameworks centered on storage nodes for power grids to provide reliable electric power. Its plans include building data centers powered with renewable energy. The benefits of renewable energy include, in addition to safeguarding the environment, spawning employment and tax revenue in accordance with economic rationality. GreenEnergy & Company’s Micro GX is a bottom-up model for community participation through joint engagement by local government and the private sector. It promises applicability to GX in nations and regions worldwide.
* https://green-energy.co.jp (Japanese)
Mizuho Financial Group
Yasuhiko Ushikubo,
Senior Executive Officer, Head of Research and Consulting Unit, Group Chief Sustainability Officer
Reconcile the resolution of societal challenges and economic growth
Mizuho Financial Group has sketched a desirable future for Japanese industry and is helping fulfill that vision by reconciling industrial transformation for resolving transcendent issues with economic growth. It has earmarked ¥100 trillion for sustainable finance and is deploying that funding on schedule. Mizuho is also taking part in cultivating new technologies to transform industry. The circular economy, meanwhile, is assuming ever-greater importance in economic security. In that realm, Mizuho works with corporate clients on supply chain transformation to spawn new industries. It identifies impacts crucial to the integrated evaluation of social and environmental value, and by promoting impact business initiatives, such as issuing reports on avoided emissions and developing transformative products, Mizuho is working to shape a virtuous cycle of resolving societal issues and enhancing corporate value.
Earth hacks
Sumihito Sekine,
President and CEO
Translate decarbonization into economic value
Earth hacks is a joint venture between the advertising agency Hakuhodo and the trading house Mitsui & Co. Its founders established the company to promote GX, especially from the standpoint of Generation Z. The company aims to nurture new values and encourage behavioral change by earning consumer empathy. Earth hacks’ endeavors engage Generation Z consumers in activity for advancing GX. Those endeavors include a decarbonization scoresheet for quantifying percentage reductions in carbon dioxide emissions that result from product innovations. Another is the Decarbonization Challenge, a co-creation business contest. Earth hacks will continue to promote co-creation among consumers, companies, and local governments aimed at shaping society to offer low-burden, low-carbon lifestyle alternatives.
* https://co.earth-hacks.jp (Japanese)
