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Name Affiliation Title Ryosuke Takahashi Senior Research Officer, Planning Department
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Date: November 11, 2025
Organized jointly by UNFCCC, ITU, JICA, Gates Foundation, CDPI and Co-Develop
Name of venue (pavilion name): Official event venue of the Presidency
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Name Affiliation Title Kyosuke Inada, Special Advisor for Sustainability Promotion, JICA Valad Pande, Partner & Director, Boston Consulting Group Brayon Paiske, Founder, TrustCarbon Dietram Oppert, Executive Secretary, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Seizo Onoe, Chairman, Technology Executive Committee Director, Telecommunication Standardization Bureau, International Telecommunication Union (ITU), and others
Background and Objectives
Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI: ID, payment, data collaboration, etc.) is gaining international attention as a foundation for inclusive service delivery and efficient information management. JICA sees great potential for the use of DPI in the field of climate change, and has partnered and co-created with the Gates Foundation, Co-Develop, the Center for Digital Public Infrastructure (CDPI), and BCG to identify and support innovative DPI-based climate change DPI for People and Planet (DPI4PP) to identify and support innovative DPI-based climate change solutions. This seminar was held to introduce the achievements of the five companies selected from over 540 applicants from 73 countries around the world and to communicate to the international community the potential for climate change action brought about by DPI.
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At the COP30 official side event “Unlocking the Power of AI and DPI for Climate Action,” JICA, together with the event co-sponsors UNFCCC and ITU, presented the potential for new climate action measures combining DPI and AI that have been discovered through their innovation challenges. JICA, together with UNFCCC and ITU, co-sponsors of the event, presented the potential of new climate change countermeasures combining DPI and AI, which were discovered through their respective innovation challenges.
At the beginning of the session, BCG gave an overview of this co-creation program and the significance of international collaboration. Next, Trust Carbon of Brazil, a DPI4PP finalist, took the stage and introduced a platform linked to personal IDs that allows small farmers to visualize the environmental value of their farmland and obtain carbon credits.
From JICA, Mr. Inada, Deputy Director for Sustainability Promotion, took the stage to demonstrate the importance of using DPI and AI to accelerate climate action in developing countries, and stressed the importance of further strengthening international collaboration on climate change measures centered on DPI, and the need to promote innovation while ensuring inclusiveness, transparency, and efficiency. He also stressed the importance of further strengthening international collaboration on climate change measures centered on the DPI, and of promoting innovation while ensuring inclusiveness, transparency and efficiency.
International organizations such as UNFCCC and ITU shared related initiatives, reaffirming the need for global collaboration using DPI and AI.
Photo 1: Mr. Inada, Director of the Sustainability Office, speaks at a COP30 side event
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