Climate Change Data

Environmental Metrics

ESG Focus Areas

• Climate Change
• Environmental
• Social
• Governance

Environmental Achievements

• Estimated greenhouse gas emission reductions in 2020 of 16 million tons CO2/year (including 14.6 million tons CO2/year from the Dedicated Freight Corridor Project in India)
• Support for projects in energy, urban development, transportation, forest and other natural environment conservation, agriculture, environmental management, disaster prevention, water resource management, and healthcare contributing to climate change mitigation and adaptation.
• Construction and rehabilitation of small hydroelectric power plants in Rattanakiri Province, Cambodia, reducing CO2 emissions and providing stable electricity supply.

Social Achievements

• Disaster Resilience Enhancement And Management Program Loan in Indonesia, improving disaster risk reduction and management capacity.
• Support for the Vietnamese government's climate change measures through policy dialogue and other means, strengthening capacity to adapt to climate change and mitigate its effects.
• Project for Capacity Development on Energy Efficiency and Conservation in Arab Republic of Egypt, strengthening administrative capacity for energy conservation.

Governance Achievements

• Establishment of the Advisory Committee for ESC, providing independent advice on environmental and social considerations.
• Establishment of the Objection Procedure to ensure compliance with ESC Guidelines.
• Revision of ESC Guidelines underway to ensure transparency and accountability.

Climate Goals & Targets

Environmental Challenges

• Negative impact of increased and more severe natural disasters on JICA-supported projects (physical risk).
• Increased project-related costs from strengthening climate change laws and regulations; rapid technological progress (transition risk).

Mitigation Strategies

• Conducting scenario analysis to understand the impact of climate change on operations.
• Developing strategies to support developing countries' transitions towards decarbonization.
• Using the JICA Climate-FIT tool to assess climate risk in projects and incorporate climate change countermeasures.

Supply Chain Management

Climate-Related Risks & Opportunities

Physical Risks

• Increased and more severe natural disasters

Transition Risks

• Strengthening of climate change laws and regulations
• Rapid technological progress

Opportunities

• Cooperation focused on mitigation and adaptation measures
• Promotion of Green Climate Fund (GCF) projects

Reporting Standards

Frameworks Used: TCFD

UN Sustainable Development Goals

• SDG 13
• SDG 15
• SDG 17

JICA projects contribute to various SDGs, particularly through climate change mitigation and adaptation, sustainable resource management, and partnerships.

Environmental Metrics

ESG Focus Areas

• Climate Change
• Human Security
• Quality Growth
• Gender Equality
• Multicultural Coexistence
• Environmental Sustainability
• Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Environmental Achievements

• Published the JICA Sustainability Report in November 2022
• Reducing electricity and energy consumption
• Promoting the wider use of renewable energy
• Procuring eco-friendly products
• Securing healthy working environments
• Cooperated in the development of the National Forest Monitoring System (NFMS) of Kenya
• Promoting commercial forestry
• Planting Adansonia digitata (Baobab) and Melia volkensii (Melia) at four primary schools
• Formulated a road map for the further deployment of renewables by 2030 in Solomon Islands

Social Achievements

• Supported the acceptance of foreign nationals to maintain the country’s vitality
• Helping to create an inclusive society
• Making Japan a country in which people from abroad choose to work and live
• Accepted 13,090 training participants and students from developing countries in fiscal 2022
• Dispatched 9,438 JICA experts and JICA volunteers in fiscal 2022
• Supported the social participation of persons with disabilities (PWDs) in Mongolia
• Training job coaches in Mongolia
• Provided employment support services to PWDs in Mongolia
• Supported start-ups that tackle social issues in Ethiopia
• Supported the acceptance of a Thai volunteer from TICA in Japan
• Resumed dispatch of Japan Overseas Cooperation Volunteers and Senior Volunteers for Nikkei Communities

Governance Achievements

• Established an Office for Sustainability Management in April 2023
• Established the Sustainability Committee in November 2022
• Improved the content of the JICA Sustainability Report
• Setting targets through back-casting method
• Revised its own evaluation criteria for projects
• Incorporates external evaluations in ex-post evaluations
• Developed a corporate governance structure that encompasses a system of internal discipline
• Established an internal control system
• Established the Office of Audit as an independent section
• Developed relevant regulations for the internal control system
• Compiled a policy document titled “Internal Control at JICA”
• Established the Risk Management Committee for Finance and Investment Account

Climate Goals & Targets

Environmental Challenges

• Compounded crises facing the world (geopolitical competition, climate change, infectious diseases, food and energy price rises, debt crises)
• Trade-offs between development and environment and between the 17 goals of the SDGs
• Challenges related to private sector projects in developing countries (inadequate investment environment, difficulties in securing financial viability, insufficient recognition of proper public-private role-sharing and risk allocation)
• COVID-19 pandemic impact on JICA activities and volunteer programs
• Deteriorating public security due to soaring prices and the prolonged global pandemic
• Risks associated with climate change (physical risks from increased natural hazards, transitional risks from stricter laws and regulations and rapid technological progress)

Mitigation Strategies

• Swiftly restored JICA activities to pre-pandemic levels
• Strategically promote projects according to the JICA Global Agenda
• Reexamined organizational management practices and implemented sustainability management
• Established the Office for Sustainability Management
• Enhanced related internal systems
• Emphasis on efforts to strike a balance among economic, social, and environmental dimensions
• Strengthening cooperation with development finance institutions and international organizations to promote co-financing
• Resumed dispatching volunteers depending on the situation surrounding infections and health-care resources
• Provided online support activities and capacity building during volunteer standby
• Took steps to resume international traveling of related personnel after confirming that health care and transfer arrangements are adequately in place with regard to COVID-19
• Gave relevant alerts to its partners working abroad based on case studies of actual crimes
• Strengthened security measures (reviewing and applying security measures, providing alerts, offering security training, maintaining and strengthening the 24-hour standby system)
• Conducted scenario analyses to assess the impacts of risks associated with climate change
• Studying strategies aimed at supporting a transition to a carbon-neutral society

Supply Chain Management

Responsible Procurement

• Procuring eco-friendly products

Climate-Related Risks & Opportunities

Physical Risks

• Increased natural hazards in developing countries impacting JICA's operations

Transition Risks

• Additional costs of dealing with climate change due to stricter laws and regulations and rapid technological progress

Opportunities

• Supporting developing countries in achieving a carbon-neutral society through mitigation and adaptation projects
• Implementing more projects under contract to the Green Climate Fund
• Expanding research that contributes to climate action

Reporting Standards

Frameworks Used: SDGs, Paris Agreement, TCFD

UN Sustainable Development Goals

• Goal 7 (Affordable and clean energy)
• Goal 13 (Climate action)
• Goal 14 (Life below water)
• Goal 16 (Peace, justice and strong institutions)
• Goal 17 (Partnerships for the goals)

JICA's initiatives contribute to these goals through various projects and programs related to renewable energy, climate change mitigation and adaptation, sustainable oceans, peacebuilding, and partnerships with various stakeholders.