Karimoku New Standard

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  • Prize Every Tree Prize

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Tatsuya Takeda

Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc.
General Manager, Sustainability Promotion Office, Planning Department

Prize Every Tree Prize

We increasingly value forests for their ability to capture and store atmospheric carbon, but it takes a huge effort over many years to develop a forest that can do this efficiently. In Japan, the mountainous terrain has delayed mechanization of forestry, and it has become difficult economically to employ people for work such as thinning, the cutting down of smaller trees so that larger trees can grow. Karimoku is helping to solve this by providing an economic use for thinned timber, which is reborn as high-quality products and contributes to carbon capture. I think it's great that Karimoku is discovering new value in Japanese timber.

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