Announcing Carbon Credit Utilization Strategies Presented to Achieve Aichi Prefecture’s Carbon Neutrality Goals and Decarbonization
Green Carbon Inc. (President: Jun Okita, hereafter “Green Carbon”) is excited to announce its participation in the “2025 MUFG Startup Summit in NAGOYA” (hereafter, the Event), hosted by MUFG Bank, Ltd. The Event was held on Thursday, July 17, 2025, in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture.
Green Carbon Inc. presented in a pitch session and exhibited at a booth. Over 300 companies participated, facilitating exchanges with businesses aiming for carbon neutrality.
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◯Video Summary of the Day’s Presentation at the Event
◆Event Overview
This Event is led by MUFG Bank, Ltd., and is held to create new business and open innovation ideas, and to provide opportunities for operating companies and startups to connect. It was held on Thursday, July 17th, at STATION Ai, one of Japan’s largest startup support facilities, located in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture. Over 300 companies exhibited, and the number of visitors exceeded 1,000, making it a large-scale event.
Event Name: 2025 MUFG Startup Summit in NAGOYA
Date: Thursday, July 18, 2025
Venue: STATION Ai
Host: MUFG Bank, Ltd.
Co-host: Aichi Credit Union Association
Participants: Over 300 exhibiting companies, approximately 1,000 visitors
◯Event Brochure
◆Background of Participation in The Event and Green Carbon’s Pitch Session Content
Green Carbon is engaged in creating nature-based carbon credits, primarily in Southeast Asia, and is developing projects in a wide range of fields including forest conservation, paddy fields, mangrove reforestation, reduction of cow burps, and biochar projects. While developing carbon credit creation projects suited to the characteristics of natural resources in each region, we achieve efficient and highly transparent project operation by utilizing satellite data for site selection and monitoring.
Recognizing Green Carbon’s achievements in Southeast Asia, we were invited to speak at the “Japan-ASEAN Startup Business Matching Fair 2025” hosted by MUFG Bank, Ltd. in Bangkok, Thailand, in June 2025, where we presented on methods for utilizing carbon credits in Thailand. Against the backdrop of these domestic and international initiatives, we received an invitation from MUFG Bank, Ltd. to participate in this Event.
〇Presentation by Representative Director Okita
At this event, Green Carbon gave a presentation in line with Aichi Prefecture’s decarbonization goals. Aichi Prefecture has set targets to reduce carbon emissions by 46% by fiscal year 2030 compared to fiscal year 2013, and to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050. Furthermore, as one of its reduction measures, the prefecture is also working on the utilization of carbon credits (especially J-Credits), with a concrete example being the sale of J-Credits created from prefectural forests to banks within the prefecture. Based on these initiatives, Green Carbon, which develops nature-based carbon credit creation support, announced a proposal during the pitch to utilize carbon credits to achieve Aichi Prefecture’s decarbonization goals.
The specific proposal, as shown below, indicated that approximately “5.58 million tons” of reduction would still be necessary to achieve the target Aichi Prefecture set for 2030. This figure would account for approximately 30% of the J-Credit Office’s target of 15 million tons to be created by 2030, thus raising the challenge that achievement would be difficult solely through the utilization of domestic J-Credits. As a solution, a proposal was made to utilize JCM (Joint Crediting Mechanism)*¹, which can create a large volume of carbon credits overseas and also serves as a compliance credit. An overview of JCM and achievements in collaboration with major companies with high emissions were also introduced, receiving positive feedback from participants.
〇Graph of Emission Reduction Trends Towards Aichi Prefecture’s 46% Reduction Target by 2030: Created/Calculated by Green Carbon
◆Future Outlook
Green Carbon is extensively developing nature-based carbon credit creation nationwide, having already established a network with approximately 40,000 hectares of farmland. This network, of course, includes farmers in Aichi Prefecture and Nagoya City. By collaborating with these farmers to create and sell nature-based carbon credits, we aim to return profits to them and contribute to increasing their income.
Furthermore, to help Aichi Prefecture achieve its 2050 carbon neutrality goal, Green Carbon aims to share its expertise and contribute to the region’s decarbonization efforts. To this end, we plan to actively participate in Aichi Prefecture’s local government co-creation programs and accelerator programs to build an even stronger foundation. In the future, we aspire to establish a successful decarbonization model within Aichi Prefecture that can be expanded horizontally to other local governments across the country.
※1: JCM (Joint Crediting Mechanism)
The JCM is a system where Japan contributes to greenhouse gas emission reductions in partner countries through the diffusion of its leading decarbonization technologies. The resulting reductions are then used to help both countries achieve their emission reduction targets.
Green Carbon, Inc.
Representative : CEO Jun Okita
Address : 9F Hanzomon PREX North, 2 Chome-3-2 Kojimachi, Chiyoda City, Tokyo, Japan 102-0083
Founded : December 2019
Business Operations : Creation and Selling of Carbon Credits, Agricultural Business, Environmental Business, Businesses related to Environmental Consulting, and others.
URL : https://green-carbon.co.jp/
About Green Carbon
Green Carbon operates with the vision of “Saving the Earth with the Power of Life,” providing comprehensive support from carbon credit creation and registration to sales. Additionally, we are involved in agriculture-related businesses, research and development, and ESG consulting. We are actively generating carbon credits through methane gas reduction in rice paddies, with Japan’s first and largest J-Credit certification (approx. 6,220 tons) and plans to expand to 50,000 hectares in fiscal year 2024. Our Agreen platform simplifies credit registration and management for credit creators.