The Financial Services Agency and the Climate Data Steering Committee announced a partnership to incorporate climate-related data from more than 800 Japanese companies into the international open-data platform Climate Data Utility. Future inclusion of SSBJ disclosures is also under consideration.
On 30 October, the Financial Services Agency and the Climate Data Steering Committee (CDSC) announced a partnership to incorporate data on Japanese companies’ greenhouse gas emissions and climate-related targets into Climate Data Utility. The data, disclosed through EDINET, will be provided in a format that is easy for market participants worldwide to use. Through the partnership, the number of companies covered by the platform is expected to expand to approximately 22,000 worldwide.
Climate Data Utility is an international data platform that aggregates and standardizes companies’ climate-related data, enabling investors and financial institutions to compare and use it across countries and regions. The Financial Services Agency participates from Japan, and this initiative will make Japanese companies’ disclosed information widely available through the platform.
Data disclosed through EDINET is machine-readable and structured through measures such as XBRL tagging, enabling large-scale data processing and comparisons between companies. Future incorporation of disclosures based on SSBJ standards is also under consideration, with a view to beginning application to some Prime Market-listed companies from the fiscal year ending March 2027.
The Financial Services Agency said that this initiative does not impose new disclosure obligations, but is intended to make existing disclosed information broadly usable through an international public data platform.