{"id":241564,"date":"2026-07-26T00:07:41","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T05:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/top-environmental-fund-sees-japan-key-to-ai-energy-challenge"},"modified":"2026-07-26T00:07:41","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T05:07:41","slug":"top-environmental-fund-sees-japan-key-to-ai-energy-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/top-environmental-fund-sees-japan-key-to-ai-energy-challenge","title":{"rendered":"Top environmental fund sees Japan key to AI energy challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/top-environmental-fund-sees-japan-key-to-ai-energy-challenge.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Asia\u2019s best-performing environmental fund has increased exposure to Japan as it expects the nation\u2019s technology sector to prove increasingly pivotal in solving the artificial intelligence industry\u2019s surging power demands.<\/p>\n<p>The BNP Paribas Green Tigers Fund has returned 34% year-to-date, fueled by bets on Japanese equities that sit at the core of its stock-selection strategy, said Oscar Yang, senior portfolio manager at Impax Asset Management. The $208 million portfolio was the top-performing \u201cdark green\u201d strategy, the EU\u2019s highest sustainability classification, in Asia through June 30, Bloomberg-compiled data show.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of the Japanese companies are so unique and they\u2019re to some extent almost at a monopoly position,\u201d Yang said. \u201cIf you cut Japanese companies\u2019 products out of your supply chain, you just basically can\u2019t operate, especially for leading-edge capacity.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asia\u2019s best-performing environmental fund has increased exposure to Japan as it expects the nation\u2019s technology sector to prove increasingly pivotal in solving the artificial intelligence industry\u2019s surging power demands. The BNP Paribas Green Tigers Fund has returned 34% year-to-date, fueled by bets on Japanese equities that sit at the core of its stock-selection strategy, said [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}