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Environment Minister Koizumi Gives Keynote Speech at Social Innovation Forum [2019/12/10]
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The Nippon Foundation Social Innovation Forum 2019 opened with a keynote address by Environment Minister Shinjiro Koizumi at Tokyo International Forum on November 29, 2019.


The Nippon Foundation Social Innovation Forum 2019 was held from November 29 to December 1 at Tokyo International Forum in central Tokuyo.

The annual gathering opened with a keynote speech by Environment Minister Shinjiro Koizumi, who took up a Cabinet portfolio for the first time in September this year. This was his fourth appearance in as many years at the forum, which is designed to search for specific measures to resolve increasingly complex social issues through innovative ideas and actions.

In his speech to an estimated 1,000 audience, Minister Koizumi said that he has assumed “the post which most requires social innovation,” expressing his determination to lead the world in tackling what is no longer being called climate change but the climate crisis, and challenges facing the oceans, especially marine plastic waste, and other issues.

He cited an estimate that there would be more plastic waste than fish in the sea by the year 2050, and warned that 90 percent of Japan’s sand beaches would disappear by 2100 if the Paris climate agreement for reducing the world’s greenhouse gas emissions is not attained. He does “not want to pass on such a future to the next generation,” including his own child expected to be born early next year, he stressed.

I followed up his presentation with a speech dealing with ocean environmental issues, stressing the importance for every one of us to do whatever we can in a concerted effort to change the future.

It was quite fortunate for The Nippon Foundation to have Mr. Koizumi as a keynote speaker for four years in a row, since one opinion poll after another puts the 38-year-old son of former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi at the top of the list of candidates for the next prime minister.

The three-day forum also featured 12 “Future Sessions,” in which new acquaintances who met at the venue engaged in creative dialogue on a wide range of topics such as family and child-rearing, work style, community, agriculture, and artificial intelligence (AI).

The final day of the forum saw the selection of The Nippon Foundation Social Innovation Award 2019 winners. Pending final approval by the foundation’s board of directors, the top prize of 10 million yen will be given to Mr. Tomoya Onaka of the NPO “Silent Voice” for developing a service for matching hearing-impaired persons on the web with an instructor who can communicate in sign language. The winners were chosen from among the 10 finalists who made presentations during the forum and 131 entrants from all over Japan.

Altogether, more than 3,000 people participated in the forum. I would like to take this opportunity to thank all those who took part as well as the foundation’s staff members for their hard work to make it a success.

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I followed Minister Koizumi with a speech dealing with ocean environmental issues in front of an audience estimated at 1,000.
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