Environment

On 17 February, the EU-Japan Centre organized a hybrid seminar on “Accelerating the clean transition in the EU and Japan” at the Europa House.

The EEN partner Bayern Innovativ GmbH is organizing a virtual B2B event within the frame of the IPEC 2025 International Production Environmental Community conference.

This report aims to provide basic information on the Green Transformation (GX) policy of the Japanese government and its implication on the main technological fields affected by it.

This work is a snapshot of the position that log houses occupy in the Japanese housing market and the opportunities that European SMEs related to this sector can encounter in it.

Instituto Valenciano de la Competitividad Empresarial is organizing a hybrid B2B matching event during the Energy Global Expo and Congress.

What business opportunities does the Japanese plastic recycling market offer to EU SMEs?

On 4 May 2023, Polish Minister of Climate and Environment, Anna Moscow, and Japanese Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan, Yasutoshi Nishimura, signed a Memorandum of Cooperation in the field of hydrogen.

Climate change and its associated natural disasters pose significant financial risks to economies around the world. As a result, central banks are increasingly being called upon to integrate environmental issues into their policies.

The Smagua International water and irrigation exhibition, with over 25 years of experience, has become an essential meeting point for the sector thanks to its distinctly innovative position, the quality of its technical conferences and the numerous presentations of products, equipment and technological solutions.

Organised by Kobe University and the VUB on 18 October 2022, the 12th Annual KUBEC high-level symposium ‘Blue Economy, Green Horizons: EU-Japan Research for Healthy, Sustainable Seas and Oceans’, presented key topical issues and breakthroughs in Ocean research, from the perspectives of economics and governance, technology and innovation, and social sciences. In front of a record audience of 130 participants, the event featured 43 EU and Japanese speakers, including DG RTD Director General (Acting) Signe Ratso, Japanese Ambassador Yasushi Masaki, Kobe University President Masato Fujisawa and Horizon Europe Mission Chairman and former WTO Director-General Pascal Lamy.

Within the frame of Smart City Expo World Congress EEN partner ACCIÓ is organizing a hybrid B2B event for companies and organizations operating in the smart sectors.