2016 Volume 70 Issue 4 Pages 388-405
The Japan Paper Association (JPA) established its“Voluntary Action Plan on Environment”in 1997, in response to Nippon Keidanren's call to the Japanese business community to organize“Keidanren's Voluntary Action Plan on Environment”. Since then, JPA has carried out a follow-up survey and published the results every year.
As the Voluntary Action Plan finished in fiscal 2012, JPA newly started“JPA's Action Plan for Low-Carbon Society”and has been actively addressing global warming prevention in order to achieve the following targets set in the plan :
*Compared to BAU scenario (based on specific CO2 emission rate of 2005), reduce fossil energy-derived CO2 emissions by 1.39 million tons by fiscal 2020.
*In view of securing forest resources and increasing forest carbon sink, expand forest plantation areas owned or managed by the paper industry at home and abroad to 700 thousand hectares by fiscal 2020.
According to the results of the fiscal 2015 follow-up survey (actual results for fiscal 2014), fossil-energy derived CO2 emissions in fiscal 2014 was 18.05 million tons, a 27.6% reduction compared to the fiscal 2005 (24.91 million tons). This is attributed to each manufacturer's active efforts including energy saving and energy conversion from fossil energy to non-fossil energy such as biomass energy.
In addition to the results of the follow-up survey, this report introduces the current energy situation in the Japanese paper industry, outline of the next phase of JPA's Action Plan for Low-Carbon Society spanning the ten-year period from fiscal 2021 through 2030 and the latest information of countermeasures against global warming.
