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7 Apr, 2021 Author Yuzo Yamaguchi
More institutional investors in Japan will likely join Nippon Life Insurance Co. in dialing up pressure on their portfolio companies to go greener more aggressively, experts say, after the nation s largest life insurer went as far as threatening to off-load investments that are not tackling emissions adequately.
Nippon Life, also the third-largest Asian institutional investor by assets under management, said in February that companies in its ¥10 trillion domestic portfolio must achieve net-zero emissions by 2050, or risk being divested. The insurer also said it would start investing in companies actively tackling emissions from the current fiscal year beginning April 1.
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