Promoting biodiversity conservation efforts
Panel discussion
NYK Executive Officer Yuko Tsutsui participated in a panel discussion on December 3 at the Keidanren Nature Conservation Council 2024 Symposium, which was jointly hosted by the Council and the Japan Conference for 2030 Biodiversity Framework (J-GBF)1 (Secretariat: Japan’s Ministry of the Environment).
The symposium is held every year to publicize trends in biodiversity. This year's theme was how corporate management should work toward ”living in harmony with nature”, the 2050 vision of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, and enhance corporate value through nature-positive management.2 Keynote speeches were given by experts, companies introduced their initiatives for biodiversity conservation, and free discussions were held among participants who actively discussed biodiversity and nature positive.
A panel discussion that included Tsutsui and Shogoro Fujiki, CEO of Biome, Inc., examined the "Challenge of Visualizing the Value of Nature" together with Professor Akie Iriyama of Waseda Business School (Graduate School of Business and Finance). Tsutsui introduced NYK’s participation in the ANEMONE Consortium3 as an example of industry-government-academia co-creation for visualizing nature’s value.
In November 2024, NYK released its Nature Positive Declaration.4 NYK’s environmental DNA sampling of the open ocean and the company’s "Yu no Mori" reforestation project align with efforts to realize a nature-positive economy.
NYK Executive Officer Yuko Tsutsui presenting at the panel discussion
Symposium speakers
Third from right, NYK Executive Officer Yuko Tsutsui
On March 10, 2023, the NYK Group released its medium-term management plan “Sail Green, Drive Transformations 2026 - A Passion for Planetary Wellbeing. ” The NYK Group is promoting growth strategies with ESG at the core, based on the Group’s mission statement of “Bringing value to life” and a new corporate vision for 2030, which reads, “we go beyond the scope of a comprehensive global logistics enterprise to co-create value required for the future by advancing our core business and growing new ones.”
1 Japan Conference for 2030 Biodiversity Framework
About J-GBF｜Japan Conference on 2030 Biodiversity Framework｜Ministry of the Environment, Japan
(Japanese)
2 Nature Positive
Halting and reversing biodiversity loss to put nature on a path to recovery
3 ANEMONE Consortium
An organization aiming to realize a society in harmony with nature by utilizing ANEMONE (abbreviation of All Nippon eDNA Monitoring Network), a large-scale observation network of environmental DNA. The organization was established in June 2022 by Tohoku University, NYK Line, other companies, NPOs, academic societies, and others.
4 Nature Positive Declaration
A declaration in which stakeholders declare their respective activities to start with toward realizing the nature-positive goal of ensuring more nature in the world by 2030 and continued recovery thereafter.
NYK’s Nature Positive Declaration
(Japanese)
Related Press Releases
Related Sites
The news on this website is as of the date announced and may change without notice.