Cases in Japan
Environmental Information Disclosure Platform
(Summary)
Ministry of the Environment has started construction of information infrastructure for investors to leverage the environment information, based on the Law Concerning the Promotion of Business Activities with Environmental Consideration (enacted in 2005) from 2013 to 2015.
Especially for the base construction project for disclosing environmental information (2015), the viewing and analyzing features and tools to promote communication within their test platform “Environmental Information Disclosure System” were developed. Experiments are being conducted to check the following:
(Features)
This project will further develop the “Environmental Information Disclosure System”, leading to fair evaluations of businesses that consider the environment, and thus is expected to promote the construction of social system where funds flow to such businesses.