Abstract
The G7 Environmental Ministers Meeting was held in Toyama City on the 15th and 16th of May, 2016. A meeting between environmental ministers has not been held since the previous session in Siracusa, Italy in 2009. Environmental Ministers and other high level representatives from Japan, Italy, Canada, US, Germany, and EU participated in the meeting and adopted the Communiqué, including its annex which is known as the Toyama Framework on Material Cycles. This addition sets the framework for G7 members to strive toward better management of material cycles and the promotion of the 3Rs—ambitiously and in a concerted manner. Based on this successful achievement, G7 members, including Japan, are now taking the lead in tackling the issue surrounding the realization of a Material Cycle Society. At the meeting, the UNEP-IRP and the OECD presented G7 members with their recommendations.
