It's the first time! Loans were provided by financial institutions utilizing the system to businesses seeking to obtain “Y-SDGs” certification under the Yokohama SDGs Certification System.

The Yokohama SDGs Design Center (hereinafter referred to as the "Design Center") plays a central role in realizing the SDGs Future City, Yokohama City is working with citizens and businesses to implement various initiatives that will lead to solving familiar issues to solving global issues.
In November this year, Yokohama City announced the first certification company (29 businesses) of the “Y-SDGs” (hereinafter “Y-SDGs”), and companies and organizations (hereinafter “business operators”) will utilize Y-SDGs to work on SDGs, thereby shifting to sustainable management and management, expanding new customers and business partners, and moving forward with investment and investment decisions to invest in ESG.
Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (President and CEO: Makoto Takashima) has provided a loan using Y-SDGs to Yamashin Filter Co., Ltd. (President: Atsuhiko Yamazaki), a local company aiming to obtain Y-SDGs certification. Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (President: Katsunori Tanizaki), together with Japan Res. Inst., Ltd. (President: Katsunori Tanizaki), confirmed the check sheet required for obtaining certification created by Yamashin Filter, and used it for initiatives related to SDGs and evaluation of non-financial information.
This is the first loan that utilizes Y-SDGs, and this is the first case in a government-designated city where the certification system for SDGs established by local governments was used in financing financial institutions.
In the future, we hope that “Y-SDGs” will be used to finance and finance more financial institutions, etc., which will lead to support SDGs initiatives by businesses outside and outside the city, and we will continue to promote initiatives that allow citizens and businesses to realize and experience the SDGs.