In Japan and around the world, transitions to decarbonized societies for the year 2050 are accelerating. For businesses, how to advance decarbonization of their products and services is an urgent matter. One of the keys to achieving this is to shift towards circular business models, which are expected to create synergies between carbon emission reduction and circular business transformation. Taking steps to implement the circular economy concept can also lead to increasing the competitiveness of a company. The client requested us to consult on how they can start to adopt circular economy principles into their business.

In January 2021, WWF published the results of its 2021 report on responsible investment practices, titled RESPOND (Resilient and Sustainable Portfolios that Protect Nature and Drive Decarbonization). We translated the report into Japanese under the supervision of a Japanese-native editor from WWF.

This global corporate client approached us after updating their current 2030 targets and setting new 2050 targets. They requested us to create communication tools that can clearly convey the contents and aims of the new goals to their major stakeholders: employees and investors.

The client needs to share information regularly to boost CSR awareness within the company. With this goal in mind, we support them through writing monthly articles on sustainability for their employees, which are shared within their intranet.

We translated the report Sumitomo Corporation’s Dirty Energy Trade: Biomass, Coal, and Japan’s Future, published by Mighty Earth, a global campaign organization that works to protect the environment, focusing on the big issues: conserving threatened landscape like tropical forests, oceans, and solving climate change.

Under the supervision of Amnesty International Japan, we translated the Executive Summary in the report Time to Recharge: Corporate Action and Inaction to Tackle Abuses in the Cobalt Supply Chain into Japanese.

On June 15, 2018 in Tokyo, Amnesty International Japan and Asia-Pacific Human Rights Information Center (Hurights Osaka) co-sponsored the “Seminar for instilling more awareness on business and human rights in your company.” Takeshi Nozawa, our CEO and Managing Director, facilitated the workshop for participants from companies to share their own issues with their participants and categorize them for finding solutions.

To prepare for the project we needed to get to the local area and gather information in Myanmar. Our final report to the client provided a compilation of local information and recommendations on partnerships, plus suggestions for future project deployment.

Working under the guidance of Greenpeace, EcoNetworks assisted with the translation of the 19th edition of the Guide to Greener Electronics into Japanese.

On September 9, 2017, our CEO Takeshi Nozawa made a presentation titled “Gender-related expressions in Japan and abroad ― Aiming for a stereotype-free society” at Gender and Media symposium organized by Asahi Institute of Journalism.

EcoNetworks assisted with the English-to-Japanese translation of the report “the Environmental Risks of Neonicotinoid Pesticides” that was commissioned to the Sussex University in the UK.

Using lunchboxes provided to participants, we introduced tasks that would make them think personally about UN Sustainable Development Goals and social issues.