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Bi-Will recently began offering J-credits for a new financial product developed by the Chugoku Bank. Created in the Chugoku and Shikoku regions [...].
While issues such as stagnant demand for domestic lumber and a shortage of forestry leaders are becoming apparent nationwide, the company boasts the nation's largest production of Japanese cypress and has a CLT (direct [...]].
The environment surrounding the forestry industry is becoming increasingly challenging, with factors such as sluggish demand for domestic timber and population decline. On the other hand, decarbonization and economic security perspectives [...]
Goto City, Nagasaki Prefecture, is collaborating with four private entities—iForest, Somabayashi, Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd., and the general incorporated association Mitsumeru Tabi—on a joint project titled "Goto [...]"
Now that generative AI provides knowledge instantly, it is becoming harder to create value simply by "knowing". Today, society needs [...].
Hokkoku Bank signed a Positive Impact Finance (PIF) agreement with Mori Mirai, a timber distribution company, on October 31 [...]
In Sakura City, Tochigi Prefecture, Tokyo Denki University, Kyoritsu Women's University, and Hokkai Gakuen University have collaborated to create artworks utilizing wood sourced from Tochigi Prefecture [...]
The 30th Conference of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) will be held in November 2025, with Brazil as the [...].
Humanity is currently facing two essential crises. One is the CO2 problem (e.g., climate change), which concerns the very foundations of the Earth's survival [...].
Every day we live under a variety of laws and regulations. At first glance, these rules restrict our behavior and present us with new challenges [...].
The University of Tokyo's Global Commons Center (CGC) recently launched the CGC-NBS Sponsorship Project, an industry-academia [...]
The "Nature Planner Foundation" fosters and supports "nature planners," entrepreneurial human resources who create new value together with nature [...].
A plan to convert an existing coal-fired power plant to a wood biomass power plant at the Nihonkaisui Sanuki Plant (Sakaide City, Kagawa Prefecture) has been approved by the [...]
Machida City, Tokyo, and Tamagawa Gakuen signed a new business collaboration agreement on August 12 to utilize and recycle trees in the city as resources [...]
Mizuho Lease and Green ELM have announced the launch of "Natu [...]," a solution that links companies with the multifaceted value provided by natural forests in the form of natural circulation.
Hokkaido has established a system to certify houses made of Hokkaido timber as "HOKKAIDO WOOD HOUSE," and in June [...]