Yi Chen is senior program officer for climate projects at the Asia Society Policy Institute. Alistair Ritchie is the organization's director of Asia-Pacific sustainability.
Japan plans to issue 20 trillion yen ($135 billion) of climate transition bonds over the next 10 years in a transformative move to support upfront investment in the green transition of its power and industrial sectors and to catalyze private investment in low-carbon technologies such as green hydrogen.
