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From Michael Hurley in Tokyo

Environmental, social and governance (ESG) considerations are essential to businesses for the opportunities they bring, and for the reputational and economic risks that arise from making the wrong decisions. In light of the growing interest and scrutiny in ESG matters from within Japan and abroad, the Japanese government has been pushing a range of measures to implement ESG initiatives.

Environmental, social and governance (ESG) considerations are essential to businesses for the opportunities they bring, and for the reputational and economic risks that arise from making the wrong decisions. In light of the growing interest and scrutiny in ESG matters from within Japan and abroad, the Japanese government has been pushing a range of measures to implement ESG initiatives.

Supervisors should not rush into regulating data providers while work to understand their

GlobalCapital: How has Covid-19 changed your approach to ESG? Kazuyuki Aihara, Nomura: Covid-19 had a major impact on the bond market. Covid-19 response bonds were issued in large numbers and, as a result of that, the social bond market got bigger. That is one major impact of the pandemic on the sustainable financing market. The pandemic also changed how issuers view the markets, particularly by encouraging them to consider shorter-term funding. The major impact we have seen, however, is that the vulnerability of the world became clear — and that threw questions of sustainability into sharp...