Aims

• This group will build a mechanism for the visualization of CO2 data across supply chains using digital technologies, reflecting new rules developed in Europe and elsewhere, business practices requiring decarbonization across global supply chains, and other trends. The aim is to create a mechanism that properly reflects emissions reduction efforts as data so as to boost company engagement.

Activities

Aims

• Establish a new renewable energy procurement method toward the early realization of Virtual Power Purchase Agreements (VPPAs) in Japan so as to expand the renewable energy procurement methods available here, something which has become an issue for the private sector

Activities

• Examine cases of Virtual PPA introduction as well as trends in renewable energy procurement, both in Japan and overseas
• Analyze the gaps between domestic and international renewable energy procurement methods and systems and the merits and demerits of Virtual PPA introduction
• Create a position statement, build relationships with the government and with related institutions and associations, and make recommendations

Aims

• Consider a data center business model that would support the government’s Digital Garden City Initiative* toward ongoing business promotion in rural areas by increasingly decentralized data centers

Activities

• Identify issues and consider solutions from the perspectives of local demand, energy supply, and data center operators toward realizing data centers that support both business continuity and decarbonization
• Exchange views with municipal authorities proactively seeking to attract data centers and identify needs in relation to data center establishment and use
• Discuss the creation of model cases toward the implementation of decarbonized data centers and make recommendations

* A plan to improve digital infrastructure across the country in order to promote digitalization as a means of eliminating the gap between rural areas and cities and stimulating regional economic revitalization

Aims

• Consider and make recommendations on common issues and solutions in relation to IT systems for measuring, evaluating, and managing performance data for companies’ environmental activities toward building a mechanism for proper market evaluation of the green value of products and services helping to reduce the environmental burden

Activities

• Collect use cases of decarbonization activities pitching green value as a selling point
• Lay out a basic approach in relation to the digital measurement, calculation, and verification of the green value of GHG emissions reduction performance, etc.
• Consider the requirements for digital technologies and data models, etc., for each use case

Aims

• Identify carbon neutrality-related trends in Japan and overseas and contribute to rule-making (trend survey)
• Partner with stakeholders overseas with an eye to global markets (international cooperation)
• Communicate information on the contribution of digital solutions to promoting a greener world so as to raise awareness of this (information communication)

Activities

Trend survey

Identify trends in carbon pricing, renewable energy, and other green policies and systems

International cooperation

Strengthen relationships with counterparts in other countries and partner with the government toward the international harmonization of systems

Information communication

Hold events to raise awareness of Green x Digital Consortium activities and introduce member companies’ good practices using digital solutions