About Sayuri Shirai
Sayuri Shirai is an advisor for sustainable policies at ADBI, a professor at Keio University’s Faculty of Policy Management, and a former policy board member of the Bank of Japan.Building a Roadmap for Transition Finance: A Path to Net Zero
While expanding financial support for environmentally green activities remains essential, more focus should be given to financing a whole-of-economy transition toward net zero.
Transition Finance and Taxonomy Under the Spotlight in Asia
Transition finance aims to support an economywide shift toward net zero.
Promoting Corporate Climate Action Through Greenhouse Gas Accounting
Disclosing information on emissions allows companies to demonstrate their commitment to achieving net zero.
Asia in need of dialogue for scaling up climate transition finance
Transition finance is one of the most challenging but underdeveloped aspects of climate finance.
Asia’s clean energy investment needs and the role of blended finance
Expanding the scale of blended finance in clean energy will require innovative efforts from the international community to reform traditional development finance approaches.
Bank of Japan’s unconventional monetary easing brings global recognition as a bold, innovative practitioner
Over the last decade, the Bank of Japan has become known as a bold practitioner of monetary easing.
Central bank initiatives essential for developing effective sustainable finance markets
As many countries have begun to take greater climate action, central banks and financial regulators must also make greater efforts to foster more effective sustainable financial markets.
Promoting innovative climate finance in emerging and developing economies
Soaring fossil fuel prices have reminded the world that investment in clean and low-emissions energy projects is needed to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by mid-century.
Central banks lead the way on green monetary policy
Central banks are becoming increasingly aware of the importance of considering climate change risks, such as physical and transition risks, and some have already launched monetary policy initiatives within the mandate of price stability.
ESG investment for promoting net-zero carbon emissions
ESG investment aims to encourage companies to consider environment (E), social (S), and corporate governance (G) issues by raising their long-term corporate value. It is becoming indispensable for filling the funding shortfalls needed to achieve the Paris Agreement’s goal of limiting the global temperature increase this century to well below 2 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels, and desirably within 1.5 degrees Celsius, as well as to encourage the transformation of corporate behavior toward net-zero emissions.
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