The United Nations announced Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development consisting of 17 goals (SDGs) and 169 targets, with the aim of achieving them by 2030. Every UN member country is working to end all forms of poverty, fight inequalities and tackle climate change.

The JSDA contributes to achieving the SDGs as a matter of high priority with the Declaration in Support of SDGs.

• Established Council and Subcommittees for Promoting SDGs (September 19, 2017)
• Declaration in Support of SDGs (March 22, 2018)
• Report: The Role of Securities Industry for SDGs (April 6, 2018)
• JSDA Invests in JICA Social Bonds (June 28, 2018)
• JSDA Signs the Women's Empowerment Principles (WEPs) (October 17, 2018)
• Asia Securities Forum adopted the Bali Declaration on Commitment to SDGs (November 2, 2018)
• JSDA Endorses the Recommendations of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) (February 22, 2019)
• JSDA Establishes the “Shareholders Incentives Endowment Fund for the SDGs” (March 20, 2019)
• Preliminary Report of the Subcommittee on Ending Poverty/Starvation and Protecting the Global Environment (March 29, 2019)
• Report: Within Reach - What We Can Do to Achieve a Sustainable Society (April 1, 2019)
• Entity to be supported by the Shareholders Incentives Endowment Fund Selected for FY2019 (April 16, 2019)
• Guidebook on Financial Instruments Contributing to the SDGs (April 25, 2019)
• ASF Survey on the Status of ESG Finance in the Asia-Pacific Region (August 2019)
• ASF Survey on ASF Member Initiatives for the SDGs (January 2021)
• Declaration on Promoting Sustainable Finance (July 20, 2022)