(Interview with Seita Emori, Professor, Institute for Future Initiatives, the University of Tokyo, and Senior Principal Researcher in the Earth System Division, National Institute for Environmental Studies. Interview conducted by Wataru Shimizu, Partner at Anderson Mori & Tomotsune)

Lately, global-level issues and the UN's 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that indicate the goals for solving these issues have been drawing more attention. At Anderson Mori & Tomotsune, we as legal professionals continue to look for ways to contribute to achieving these SDGs. Our lawyers have developed a wealth of SDG-related expertise in their respective fields and have put these resources at the disposal of our clients, helping them find best practice-based solutions to the many legal issues that attach to sustainable development.

In this special feature, we introduce some of the activities that have allowed our lawyers not only to commit our Firm to the UN's SDGs, but also to position our Firm as a leader in the field of sustainability law.

In this feature, we interview Seita Emori, Professor, Institute for Future Initiatives at the University of Tokyo and Senior Principal Researcher in the Earth System Division, National Institute for Environmental Studies.

*Date of the interview: September 14, 2022, conducted online.

Feature #7: Thinking Through Climate Change and Carbon Neutrality with Professor Emori
(Interview with Seita Emori, Professor, Institute for Future Initiatives, the University of Tokyo, and Senior Principal Researcher in the Earth System Division, National Institute for Environmental Studies. Interview conducted by Wataru Shimizu, Partner at Anderson Mori & Tomotsune)

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