抄録
Now the Advisory Committee for Energy has taken up the security problem of several kinds of energy as the preferred issue and is undergoing revising work of energy supply and demand outlook toward the goal in less than a year. This work will emboss opaqueness and uncertainty of energy and environment though surrounding condition of energy such as oil price increase is changing considerably. This time at first I outlooked the present state of coal energy and environmental problems, followed by new condition related coal, third, CCT's ability to fixing up coal energy and environmental problems, fourth, how the condition of coal use will change according to the development of CCT, fifth, importance of international cooperation and finally noble use of coal in 21 century.
