Indeed, finding ways to foster appropriate green and sustainable finance to invest in the crucial fight against climate change has been one of the key priorities of the Italian Presidency of the G20 this year. The urgency of acting to stop climate change and of mitigating its consequences is plain to see.
Japan’s contribution in this direction has, of course, been essential, as it presided over the adoption of the historical Kyoto protocol in 1997. We may also recall the alarm already raised in the early 1970s by the ‘Club of Rome’, with its report, ‘The Limits to Growth’.