Working Toward the SDGs
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are 17 global goals created by the United Nations that aim for a better and more sustainable world by 2030. JPX works toward mainly the following goals, as both a market operator and corporate entity.
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Goal 4: Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all Target 4.3 By 2030, ensure equal access for all women and men to affordable and quality technical, vocational and tertiary education, including university Target 4.7 By 2030, ensure that all learners acquire the knowledge and skills needed to promote sustainable development JPX provides financial and economic education. Recent years have seen significant changes in the environment surrounding retail investors. Asset formation has become more familiar with growing awareness of SDGs and ESG investment, the spread of financial technology, and the popularization of information sharing through social media. Amid such developments, it has become increasingly important to acquire the right knowledge and make independent decisions for stable asset formation. Additionally, in order to acquire the right knowledge, it is necessary to have an environment where each individual can choose a learning method that suits them from among a variety of systematically organized programs. Out of recognition of these issues, JPX has launched "JPX Manebu Lab," a single brand for financial and economic education. From its impartial, neutral position as a capital market operator, it has continued to strengthen and improve its financial and economic education activities to provide accurate information. These efforts have succeeded in reaching a wide audience. |
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Goal 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls Target 5.5 Ensure women’s full and effective participation and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of decision-making in political, economic and public life JPX promotes the advancement of women in companies listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. As well as asking companies to ensure diversity in the Corporate Governance Code, through, for example, the promotion of employees to senior positions in the company from perspectives including gender, we have also incorporated numerical targets of striving to appoint at least one female officer by 2025 and aiming for 30% female officers by 2030 in the Tokyo Stock Exchange listing rules, in line with government policy. JPX also encourages efforts in this area by providing gender equality seminars to listed companies and selecting and publishing, together with the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, the “Nadeshiko Brands”: companies that are actively promoting women’s participation, including developing an environment in which women can continue working through all life stages. Within the company, JPX has also established a Diversity Promotion Group within the Human Resources Department to ensure that diverse human resources can contribute to JPX regardless of sex, nationality, age, or other characteristics, and is implementing various diversity initiatives. We have also formulated an Action Plan for the Next-Generation Act and for the Promotion of Women’s Active Engagement Act, aiming to maintain a working environment in which it can utilize the diversity of individual employees and they can display the most of their abilities. |
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Goal 7: Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all Target 7.2 By 2030, increase substantially the share of renewable energy in the global energy mix Target 7.a By 2030, enhance international cooperation to facilitate access to clean energy research and technology, including renewable energy, energy efficiency and advanced and cleaner fossil-fuel technology, and promote investment in energy infrastructure and clean energy technology Tokyo Stock Exchange provides a market to list infrastructure funds that invest in infrastructure such as renewable energy generation facilities. In addition to providing investors, including individual investors, with opportunities to invest in renewable energy generation facilities, JPX contributes to the spread of renewable energy by facilitating investment into renewable energy generation facilities through infrastructure funds. In Japan, which relies heavily on imports for the bulk of its fossil fuels, the energy market is relatively volatile given the influence of global supply and demand, geopolitical risks, weather conditions, and other factors. To address this, JPX provides a futures market where energy-related products including electricity, crude oil, petroleum products, and LNG can be traded in one place. For example, using the hedging function provided by the futures market helps to stabilize the actual procurement/sale price of energy for the hedging company, widening the choices for consumers and facilitating easier forecasting of future revenues, thereby promoting investment into the transition to sustainable energy among businesses. Also, JPX has achieved, and aims to maintain, carbon neutrality in direct and indirect emissions related to its operations (Scopes 1 and 2) and works on its own renewable energy generation projects as part of this. |
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Goal 8: Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all Target 8.3 Promote development-oriented policies that support productive activities, decent job creation, entrepreneurship, creativity and innovation, and encourage the formalization and growth of micro-, small- and medium-sized enterprises, including through access to financial services JPX aims to contribute to the sustainable growth of the Japanese economy as a core infrastructure that supports financing for companies and asset building for the public. JPX supports innovation and growth through the provision of an environment that supports the sustainable growth of listed companies, by promoting the medium- to long-term enhancement of corporate value through the Corporate Governance Code and other initiatives, and by strengthening the functions that channel funds to growth companies such as the Growth Market. We are also working to improve the market environment by further enhancing the convenience and resilience of the market infrastructure and developing products and systems that contribute to asset formation, so that the fruits of such innovation and growth can lead to asset formation by the public, which then feeds back into the next stage of innovation and growth. |
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Goal 10: Reduce inequality within and among countries Target 10.5 Improve the regulation and monitoring of global financial markets and institutions and strengthen the implementation of such regulations To ensure fair trading and protect investors in the markets operated by JPX, Japan Exchange Regulation (JPX-R) carries out self-regulatory operations to ensure the fairness, transparency and reliability of the markets. To address international inequalities, JPX-R is also working to exchange information and strengthen cooperation in the field of market surveillance through participation in the Intermarket Surveillance Group, which is comprised of self-regulatory organizations from various countries. In addition, JPX cooperates with governmental and other organizations on training and other skill-building exercises for employees of finance regulators and other industry players in developing countries on stock exchange operations, thereby contributing to better knowledge and skills on topics like rule framework-building in financial markets. |
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Goal 12: Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns Target 12.6 Encourage companies, especially large and transnational companies, to adopt sustainable practices and to integrate sustainability information into their reporting cycle JPX encourages sustainability-related initiatives and information disclosure among companies listed on Tokyo Stock Exchange. The Corporate Governance Code sets forth the principle that "the board should address sustainability matters positively and proactively in terms of increasing corporate value over the mid- to long-term," and states that, with the requirement being introduced to prepare annual securities reports based on the disclosure standards established by the Sustainability Standards Board of Japan (SSBJ) for certain Prime-listed companies, it is important for companies to respond positively and proactively to sustainability issues. In addition, we support listed companies in understanding and appropriately responding to sustainability issues by providing them with tools such as practical guidance and information on our website. |
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Goal 13: Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts Target 13.1 Strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards and natural disasters in all countries Target 13.2 Integrate climate change measures into national policies, strategies and planning Target 13.3 Improve education, awareness-raising and human and institutional capacity on climate change mitigation, adaptation, impact reduction and early warning To support the shift to carbon neutrality in Japan, JPX is pushing forward with our climate transition plan both as a market operator and as a business corporation. In addition to promoting sustainability through market mechanisms, JPX has achieved carbon neutrality as a Group and aims to maintain this. In addition, JPX supports the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry's "GX League Basic Concept" and has established a carbon credit market as part of carbon pricing frameworks promoted by the Japanese government. We are also working to strengthen information dissemination and build an environment where market functions are used to their full potential so that ESG investment funding can be utilized by companies that have the high-level technology and potential to contribute to the decarbonization of society. |
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Goal 17: Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Target 17.14 Enhance policy coherence for sustainable development Target 17.17 Encourage and promote effective public, public-private and civil society partnerships, building on the experience and resourcing strategies of partnerships JPX promotes sustainability in cooperation with various stakeholders in Japan and overseas. In Japan, JPX participates in meetings of Financial System Council Working Groups, the Expert Committee on Sustainable Finance, and other groups held by government ministries and agencies to support sustainable development from a financial perspective. Overseas, we actively disseminate information through participation in, for example, the World Federation of Exchanges, the Sustainable Stock Exchanges Initiative, and the Net Zero Exchange Group – SSE Climate Leaders. |