With the challenge of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, Japan Bank for International Cooperation President Tadashi Maeda, who supports the overseas expansion of Japanese companies, has indicated that he will focus on investing in technologies that promote decarbonization.
At a press conference on the 29th, Governor Maeda of the Japan Bank for International Cooperation, a government-affiliated financial institution that supports overseas energy projects involving Japanese companies, said, "It will be necessary to disseminate innovation that promotes decarbonization. Five years. We should think about 10 years from now and give it a technological advantage. ”In the future, he stated that he would focus on investing in and financing technologies that promote decarbonization.
On the other hand, regarding support for coal-fired power generation projects overseas, while showing a policy of not responding to new loans in principle, carbon dioxide such as technology for storing carbon dioxide in the ground and a method of mixing coal and ammonia and burning it He said that the exception is technologies that lead to the reduction of carbon dioxide emissions.
Regarding coal-fired power generation, it was agreed at the G7 summit held this month that the government will end international support by the end of the year for those for which greenhouse gas emission reduction measures have not been taken. I will.