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Summary
ICMA, in partnership with BofA Japan Securities and Nomura, with support from the Japan Securities Dealers Association (JSDA) and TCFD Consortium, is proud to present a two-day Transition Finance course (10-18:00 14 hour session) in Tokyo on 20 and 21 October 2025.
Designed to complement the annual conference of the Principles which will be held in Tokyo on November 6, the course will give participants a clear understanding of the role of financial and in particular fixed income markets in financing credible decarbonisation projects, activities and trajectories through sustainable bonds and other financial instruments.
Thanks to the generous sponsorship of our supporting partners, we are able to offer a highly subsidised course fee of YEN 30,000.
This course will be delivered in English and Japanese with simultaneous translation.
Agenda
- Context setting – the need for transition finance
- ICMA’s role in sustainable finance – the GSSS bond Principles and the Climate Transition Finance Handbook (CTFH)
- Recent Innovation - Green enabling guidance and Sustainability-Linked Loans financing Bonds (SLLBs)
- Official-sector guidance globally on transition finance and sectoral decarbonisation roadmaps, including METI guidelines
- Japanese transition bond market and case studies
- International developments and Regulation on Transition - Transition Plans, Taxonomies, Decarbonisation Roadmaps and Pathways
- Transition plans, corporate sustainability reporting (including ISSB, ESRS, and UK TPT frameworks)
- Target setters, certification schemes and transition assessments incl. SBTi, CBI and external reviewers
- Investor-side industry ](GFANZ guidance and NZIF) and regulations (transition-focused fund labelling and naming rules)
Learning Outcomes
By completing the programme, you will gain an understanding of:
- the background and rationale for transition strategies
- how sustainable bonds can be used to raise transition finance, including case studies of real world transactions
- how transition is characterised in global taxonomies
- how the public sector has incorporated the transition differently around the world through official guidance and regulations
- the importance of transition plans, their key components and current disclosure frameworks
- how issuers can set targets and the tools available to them, as well as how external reviewers evaluate transition-related sustainable bonds
- how investors think about the transition, how this is framed in their investment strategies and key regulation and guidance related to disclosure and fund naming rules
Sustainable Finance at ICMA
Learn directly from ICMA - Secretariat for the Green Bond Principles, Social Bond Principles, Sustainability Bond Guidelines and the Sustainability-Linked Bond Principles, collectively known as “the Principles”, and author of the Climate Transition Finance Handbook. ICMA training has empowered professionals worldwide for almost 50 years with an extensive portfolio of accredited courses in topics including sustainable finance.
Course Trainer
The programme will feature guest speakers from leading international and Japanese institutions
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The Transition Finance classroom course will be delivered in Tokyo over two full days of training. Hot/cold drinks and light refreshments will be provided during the course. If you have any dietary requirements, please let us know when you complete the registration form
You will be given access to our learning management system and the course materials before the live sessions and will have access to those for a total of three months. During these three months you will have the option to keep working through the course materials at your own pace.
Course fees - YEN 30,000
Location Address
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Day One - BofA Japan Securities, Nihonbashi 1-chome Mitsui Building(6F Seminar Room), 1-4-1 Nihonbashi, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 103-8230
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Day Two - Nomura, Urbannet Otemachi Building (6F conference room 1), 2-2-2, Otemachi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-8130
The programme will feature guest speakers from leading international and Japanese institutions
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