Journal

topics on SDGs, Nature Positive, and more

Environment

2024/12/18

Activities at the Osaka-Kansai Expo

The Osaka-Kansai Expo will open on April 13, 2025.
As a staff member, I have been involved in activities for the past two years, but I have concerns regarding the sustainability aspects of the Expo.

認証

2024/12/04

What we have learned in the year we faced the B Corp application

The maximum score is 200, with a pass line of 80; the median score for general companies is 50.9.
After facing the questions one by one, CLASS EARTH was approved with a score of 126.1 as a result.

Biodiversity

2024/01/15

2023 IUCN Red List: Record Number of Endangered Species and Hope through Conservation Efforts

On December 11, 2023, during the United Nations Climate Change Conference COP28, the latest list of endangered wildlife, the “IUCN Red List,” was announced. Do you happen to know the number of endangered species in Japan?

Biodiversity

2023/10/30

Toward the 30 by 30 goal. What is the difference between an OECM and a natural symbiosis site?

The “30 by 30” goal, which became an international commitment at the G7 Summit in 2021 along with Nature Positive, is to target 30% each of land and sea for conservation by 2030.

Biodiversity Agriculture

2023/10/18

World Agricultural Heritage and the Restoration of Japan’s Tea Plantations

Do you know that Japan is the second-largest country in the world when it comes to the number of designated areas for the ‘Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS)’? These areas are recognized for their contribution to the conservation and development of sustainable agriculture and also include criteria related to biodiversity preservation.

Biodiversity

2023/09/06

What is Biodiversity: 3 Diversity Levels and 5 Loss Factors

The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) warns that one million species of plants and animals are currently threatened with extinction worldwide, and many of these species will become extinct in the coming decades unless Nature-Positive Biodiversity restoration progresses.

Environment

2023/08/02

Earth Overshoot Day – Considering Resource Consumption in Japan

“Earth Overshoot Day” is the date on the calendar when human consumption exceeds the Earth’s annual resource reproduction. It is said that it takes 1.7 Earths worth of resources to live the way we do today, and it is clear that we are living in a situation where we are borrowing the Earth’s resources in advance. Furthermore, data has also been published on the life of each country in the case of the world as a whole. Let look at Japan.

Event

2023/07/24

CLASS EARTH Launch Party

On May 19, we unveiled CLASS EARTH to our esteemed guests from various industries, including environment, fashion, art, and entertainment, ahead of the International Day for Biological Diversity on May 22.

Biodiversity

2023/07/24

Japan – a hot spot for biodiversity

Biodiversity hotspots are as areas that once had unique ecosystems, but where many species are now threatened.
Japan is one of the world’s 36 biodiversity hotspots.

Biodiversity

2023/07/24

Red List

Threatened species are those included in various Red Lists of species that are considered to be in danger of extinction from a biological point of view.