The Green Finance Network Japan (GFNJ) was established late last year with the aim to make green finance mainstream in Japan's financial market.
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 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.