Press Release

August 24, 2012
  • Environmental Policy

Economic Survey of Environmental Industries in June 2012

The MOE has announced the results of its official survey of environmental industry, "Economic Survey of Environmental Industries in June 2012."
The result showed that the Diffusion Index (DI) of business confidence in environmental businesses was +10, which improved from +4 in the previous survey in December 2011 and surpassed -6, the business confidence DI in all businesses. Driven by Countermeasures against Climate Change, environmental businesses are expected to significantly grow in 10 years.
322 companies, 6.7% of all companies, showed interests in 567 environmental businesses they wanted to newly operate or expand in the Tohoku region.
The survey is scheduled to be conducted every six months and its regular report is to be announced accordingly.

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