The Tokyo Metropolitan Government has established a policy of supporting venture companies by establishing a fund in which the public and private sectors collaborate, saying that it is essential to foster venture companies that generate technological innovation in order to realize a carbon-free society.
To realize a carbon-free society, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government aims to halve greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 compared to 2000, and to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in Tokyo to virtually zero by 2050. I am.
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government has decided that it is essential to foster venture companies that generate technological innovation in order to achieve these goals, and in the next fiscal year = 2022, it will establish a fund in which the public and private sectors collaborate to strengthen support.
The newly established fund will invest in multiple funds with the theme of decarbonization, and the capital can expect to foster more efficient venture companies than investing directly in individual companies. increase.
In an interview with NHK, Governor Koike said, "We will create effects by linking finance and the environment. We have complained that it is a" 2030 carbon half ", but we have not only proposed numbers but also taken measures that can be steadily implemented. I will continue. "