A Study on the Policy of Biomass Use Promotion

−With a Questionnaire Survey on the Promoting Institutions−

Abstract

Recently, biomass use is attracting attentions as one of the countermeasures against the global warming and resource exhaustion problems. This thesis deals with the policy of biomass use promotion and its problem from the viewpoint of the promoting institutions. For this purpose, an intensive questionnaire survey was conducted. We selected 260 institutions introduced on websites and mailed them questionnaires in September 2005. We got 111 responses out of those 260 (43.1%).