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Promoting Sustainability that Connects Society and Economy
JPX
We consider the three years from fiscal year 2022 as the first stage in achieving this long-term vision. The slogan of this Medium-Term Management Plan 2024, "Exchange & beyond," embodies our determination to strengthen the traditional function of the exchange, stable market operations, while also advancing in new fields without being overly bound by this framework. We will press ahead with various projects that contribute to improving the attractiveness of Japanese financial and capital markets as a whole and enhance their global competitiveness.
We will assist the creation of a sustainable society by utilizing market mechanisms to provide solutions for a wide range of
societal issues, through the provision of an environment where sustainability-related information, products, and services
are easily accessible to all.
Actions
◼ Strengthen dissemination of sustainability-related information
• Creation and enhancement of information platform
Target: Launch of information platform for publicly offered ESG bonds in FY2022
• Support for sustainability information disclosure from issuers
• Participation in international debate and standard-setting on sustainable finance etc.
◼ Calculate ESG indices and list related ETFs/futures
• Calculation of ESG-related indices, listing of related futures etc.
Target: Launch of new ESG index and Listing of related futures in FY2022
◼ Vitalize the energy market, advance the creation of an emissions trading market
• Increase in trading of electricity/LNG futures
Target: Trading volume on electricity futures in FY2024 5 times that of FY2021
Target: Permanent listing of LNG futures by FY2024
• Contribution to the creation of a Japanese carbon credit market etc.
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Looking ahead to 2030, Japan Exchange Group (JPX) has set a new long-term vision to "contribute to sustainable societal and economic development by evolving into a global, comprehensive finance and information platform* which provides solutions for a wide range of societal issues, centered on the ability to raise and circulate capital."
Looking ahead to 2030, Japan Exchange Group (JPX) has set a new long-term vision to "contribute to sustainable societal and economic development by evolving into a global, comprehensive finance and information platform* which provides solutions for a wide range of societal issues, centered on the ability to raise and circulate capital."
