Carbon neutral solutions

The PwC Japan Group's Carbon Neutral Solutions Group is a cross-organisational group of professionals with experience in the renewable energy, decarbonisation-focused business management, accounting and tax fields.

These days, more and more countries throughout the world are working to mitigate climate change by becoming carbon neutral. Japan has also set a target of becoming carbon neutral by 2050. To achieve this target, companies have moved away from conventional ways of thinking, and are starting to take active measures that see the fight against climate change as an opportunity for growth. But to improve their energy efficiency and increase their renewable energy use, businesses need to drastically change their business models and strategies. We believe that building a renewables-based energy system is an important challenge for society—not only for the sake of mitigating climate change but also to reduce our consumption of fossil fuels, which are a limited resource.

The PwC Japan Group can support your sustainable business growth by providing various services to help you use renewable energy, implement decarbonisation-focused business management and develop disclosure strategies.

Key service areas

Support for decarbonisation-focused business management
Disclosure strategy and reporting support for sustainability information
Accounting services for renewable energy
Financial services for renewable energy
Deal advisory services for renewable energy

Support for decarbonisation-focused business management

We provide support to help you achieve decarbonisation-focused business management through disclosure and implementation strategies aimed at keeping the global temperature increase under 1.5°C.

Disclosure strategy and reporting support for sustainability information

Our consistent strategy development services can help you with processes from identifying issues related to disclosure and reporting to creating a mid- to long-term roadmap and creating your actual reports.

Accounting services for renewable energy

We provide the following accounting services related to renewable energy:

Financial statement audits and internal control verification services for fund management companies
Accounting advisory services for structured finance, including support for establishing special purpose entities (SPEs), consideration of the appropriate structure for SPEs and consideration of whether to consolidate established SPEs
Feasibility studies for renewable energy projects in the consideration phase, support for cost calculation, support for various procedures, project management (process control etc.), investigation into the applicability of national exemption measures for financial levies and more

Financial services for renewable energy

We provide advisory services related to tax issues in renewable energy projects and support services for the preparation of various declaration forms etc.

Deal advisory services for renewable energy

We provide the following deal advisory services related to renewable energy:

M&A advisory services provided by financial advisors
Due diligence services focusing on business due diligence to assess market growth potential and feasibility of business plans in addition to financial, tax and regulatory due diligence.
Development of fully customised financial models to meet your business needs and support to help you understand the value of businesses, various types of stocks, tangible and intangible assets and liabilities
Advisory services to help you upgrade your existing systems and infrastructure
Services for forecasting electricity prices in Japan and constructing forward curves using a model developed by PwC
Evaluation services for renewable power plants and infrastructure assets for listed infrastructure and private placement funds

etc.

Please contact us for more information.