Fukushima Regeneration/Future Oriented Project
In response to local needs in Fukushima Prefecture, the Ministry of the Environment (MOE) is promoting not only initiatives for environmental restoration but also initiatives toward a new stage of reconstruction of Fukushima to create and rediscover local value from environmental perspectives, including Decarbonization, Material Cycles and Natural Symbiosis.
In August 2020, the MOE concluded the “Cooperation Agreement on Promotion of Future-oriented Environmental Measures for the Reconstruction and Fukushima” with Fukushima Prefecture. Under this agreement, the MOE is promoting future-oriented environmental measures in collaboration with the prefecture, such as steadily promoting the Fukushima Green Reconstruction Concept and promoting countermeasures against global warming at the same time as the reconstruction of Fukushima.
In February 2021, the 10-year anniversary of the earthquake, the MOE published its policy to implement new, future-oriented, environmental measures as one of its missions at a time when Fukushima Prefecture makes a step forward for full-fledged reconstruction and regeneration. Based on the Cooperation Agreement with Fukushima Prefecture, the MOE will proceed with measures from three viewpoints, namely creation of pioneering communities through carbon-free reconstruction, rebranding of the prefecture as environmentally advanced areas, and succession of memories of environmental restoration of Fukushima.
- Included in this reference material on March 31, 2022