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This report covers the CMCC's activities in 2019, with key messages around CMCC, its projects, and its impacts.

A transformative, integrated, and holistic approach to sustainability is necessary to reach a prosperous future for all. With growing inequality in the world, demographic change, and rapid technological development, and 40 percent of the world’s population with no access to digital technology, access to digital technology for all and ultimately having a prosperous future is a must. Doing so will give a voice to the voiceless. For that, governments, companies, and transnational institutions should invest as much as possible to make it happen and provide solutions that are rules-based, inclusive, innovative, disruptive, and simple. Access to energy, mitigating climate change, and benefiting from international trade and investment all can be achieved thanks to technological advancement. These global challenges are complex, interconnected, multidimensional, interdependent, and multi-causal.

This report emphasizes the technological aspects relevant to eco-innovation. It describes the role of technology within an eco-innovation approach, provides guidance on identifying, developing, and adopting technologies, informs on the role of policy-making, and highlights the role of business intermediaries.

This report identifies some of these barriers, and specifically those originating from the policies in place that determine the context in which companies operate. It helps policymakers better understand the benefits of eco-innovation and the contribution it can make towards sustainable development and national objectives.

This proposal is a long-term key plan that maps out the road Japan should take to realise a decarbonised society towards GHG reduction strategy for 2050 as required under the Paris Agreement.