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Natural capital

River, ocean, fan, coastline, water, soil, atmosphere

9.5Fri 2025

TENOHA TATESHINA Lab.", a new tourism base in Tateshina, where visitors can learn about forest cycles through "specimens, fragrance, and color" of highland plants.

TENOHA TATESH, a forest material laboratory, is a hands-on facility utilizing plants native to Tateshina, Nagano Prefecture, at an altitude of 1,300 meters [...].

9.2Tue 2025

CGC of the University of Tokyo launches "Nature on the Balance Sheet," an industry-academia collaborative project to reflect natural capital in corporate accounting. 4 companies including Oji HD and Sumitomo Forestry participate in the project.

The University of Tokyo's Global Commons Center (CGC) recently launched the CGC-NBS Sponsorship Project, an industry-academia [...]

8.28Thu 2025

New Foundation Launched to Nurture and Support "Nature Planners," Entrepreneurs Connecting Natural Capital and the Economy

The "Nature Planner Foundation" fosters and supports "nature planners," entrepreneurial human resources who create new value together with nature [...].

8.26Tue 2025

Exploring raw biomass (2) "Softwoods and hardwoods" as different as "sharks and dolphins

Biomass, which lexically refers to the amount of living organisms (bio) (mass), as opposed to fossil resources such as oil and coal [...].

8.14Thu 2025

New EU Regulation "EUDR" is about to be put into operation to achieve zero deforestation.

Deforestation and degradation of the world's forests have become a serious problem (*1). In response to this situation, the international community is developing new regulations [...].

8.13Wed 2025

Craft gin flavored with Abies sachalinensis born: Higashikawa Town, Hokkaido, a new model for utilizing forest resources at a publicly owned and operated distillery

On August 27, a publicly owned and operated "Tankyu Distillery" opened in Higashikawa Town, Hokkaido. Making use of local agricultural products and forest resources [...].

8.10Sun 2025

Wooden thread T-shirt from unused thinned wood Tackling the challenge of recycling domestic timber

phoneme, which offers unique apparel both domestically and internationally, uses "mokito" (wood thread), which is made from unused thinned wood, for its T-shirts [...]...

8.6Wed 2025

Energy company Sinanen supports Aoba Gumi's natural capital co-creation program to create a forest to nurture natural capital in Ashikaga.

Sinanen, an energy solutions company, has partnered with Aoba-gumi, a company that specializes in afforestation and forestry, to develop a forest in Ashikaga City, Tochigi Prefecture, which is managed by Aoba-gumi [...].

7.30Wed 2025

Hints for Linking Tokyo 23 Wards Residents with Forests are Nature Experiences on Walks and Trips, Conditions for Expanding Use Indicated by Survey of 5,000 Residents

How do urban dwellers interact with forests? The Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute of the National Forestry Research and Development Institute [...].

7.26Sat 2025

Mizuho Lease and Green ELM to Verify Multifaceted Value Creation in Chiba, Japan, Toward "Forest Development x Finance" Utilizing Natural Forests as Natural Capital

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.

7.15Tue 2025

World's First Joint Project to Demonstrate Natural Capital Accounting Launched Mitsui, Nippon Paper Industries, Oji HD, and Sumitomo Forestry from Japan

How to "visualize" the value of forests through accounting? The forestry sector is collaborating internationally to incorporate natural capital into business management.

7.12Sat 2025

Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute (FFPRI) Reduces Soil Greenhouse Gas Measurement Time to 1/7 Innovative Technology Contributes to Climate Change Research and Advanced Forest Management

The Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute of the National Forestry Research and Development Institute (NFRI) is a research institute that conducts research on carbon dioxide (CO2) emitted from forest soils and its absorption by me [...].

7.11Fri 2025

Natto (fermented soybeans) made from Japanese cypress powder is born. A recycling model that connects forests, people, and soil.

Flavor, which operates wooden bathhouses and other facilities, offers "En-natural Hinoki Natto," fermented only with natural natto bacteria living in natural solid cypress, at 7 [...].

7.1Tue 2025

Achieving Carbon Neutrality through Early-Stage Forestry: The Key is the Material Cycle Perspective, Including Soil [Cultivating the Future through Carbon Cultivation].

Click here to read the previous article: New Forestry Opportunities Opened Up by Biomass-Producing, Highly Efficient Early-Growth Trees [Cultivating the Future with Carbon Cultivation] Early-Growth Trees [...].

6.24Tue 2025

Forest-based manufacturing and value for the public good: Making the "whole watershed" of biomass a growth field

The woody biomass business is expected to be a core industry for the next generation to realize a sustainable society. The spread of woody biomass requires a forest supply of resources [...].

6.14Sat 2025

Supporting Entrepreneurship and Commercialization Using Forest Space "Forests and Futures Sustainability Award 2025" Seeking Next-Generation Business Ideas

The Forest and the Future" is a general incorporated association, and the "Forest and the Future Sustainable Award 2025" is a business idea based on the theme of "the spatial value of forest [...]...

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