Paris Agreement: Finance and Takada

paris agreement: Japan was a slow starter in green finance, according to The Japan Times. It has been gaining momentum over the past one to two years, said Takada. Green finance is a term often used to refer to the ways of financing and investing that are more environmental or sustainable, which has been becoming a global trend since the Paris agreement was signed in 2016. ; Hideki Takada, secretary general of GFNJ YOSHIAKI MIURA Hideki Takada, secretary general of GFNJ and counsellor of IR Integrated Resort Promotion, Government of Japan, came across the idea of green finance when he was assigned by the Ministry of Finance as a senior policy analyst of the Green Finance and Investment at the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development OECD in Paris from 2015 until the summer of 2018. He met main players of green finance from around the world through his career at the OECD. I wanted to maintain and utilize the extensive network I built there, even after I returned to Japan to work in other fields within the government, he said. The group is made up of more than 120 individuals from over 70 organizations including government ministries and agencies, private companies, academic institutions, local municipalities, financial institutions, international organizations, think tanks, media and nongovernmental organizations. Takada consequently set up GFNJ with two other founders, Takejiro Sueyoshi, CEO of Green Finance Organization Japan and special advisor to the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative in the Asia-Pacific region, and Rintaro Tamaki, president of the Japan Center for International Finance and former deputy secretary-general of the OECD. GFNJ organizes events and symposiums on green finance, gathers and shares information on various green finance activities conducted by its members and outside the organization, and provides a platform for connecting Japanese and international stakeholders. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.