TOKYO—The Bank of Japan on Friday said it would introduce a lending facility to help banks finance projects connected to climate change.

The central bank said climate change would have an “extremely large impact” over the long term on the economy, prices and financial conditions.

The climate-change lending program, to be inaugurated this…

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