While the United Nations sustainable development goals present the diverse challenges the world faces, it is important that companies and municipalities examine what exactly they can do and who they can partner with to maximize the impact of their actions, fully aware that what they do today may ultimately lead to global sustainability.
Seiji Watanabe, mayor of the town of Oguni, Kumamoto Prefecture, and Pina Hirano, president and CEO of Asteria Corporation., discussed how a collaboration between the town and a private company could help in solving regional problems through conservation of natural resources and support for digitalization, among other efforts. They said they felt this would be an ideal partnership to pursue the SDGs, in a recent online interview with The Japan Times.