Press Release

March 24, 2025
  • Global Environment

Launch of OECD Environmental Performance Reviews: Japan 2025

   The OECD conducted a review in 2024 of Japan's environmental performance and launched a report compiling its results - "OECD Environmental Performance Reviews: Japan 2025" on March 21, 2025.

1. Overview of the Environmental Performance Review (EPR)

   The Environmental Performance Review (EPR) is a mutual review of and recommendations on environmental policy initiatives by member countries at the OECD Working Party on Environmental Performance within the Environmental Policy Committee (examining countries this time were France, Germany and the Republic of Korea). The report compiling results of the review was launched by the OECD on March 21, 2025. 
   Japan was previously reviewed in 1993, 2002 and 2010, and this is the fourth review.
   The recommendations in the report do not impose any legal obligations on the country reviewed, but rather aim to help the country to improve their environmental policies.

2. Summary of the Report

   The report consists mainly of "Assessment and Recommendations" and is organized into the following two chapters:
   In Chapter 1, under the theme of "Towards sustainable development," the OECD analyzed Japan's environmental efforts from a perspective of "sustainable growth" including its efforts to adapt to more severe and frequent disasters caused by climate change, and analyzed the mainstreaming of biodiversity in the economy from OECD’s own perspective.
   In Chapter 2, under the theme of "Leveraging synergies and place-based approaches for the green transformation," the importance of synergistic approaches was discussed while highlighting Japan's efforts for a “Circulating and Ecological Economy” and “Decarbonization Leading Areas.”

3. OECD Environmental Performance Review Report

   The report can be seen via the following URL:
   OECD Environmental Performance Reviews: Japan 2025 | OECD 

   Note: With some exceptions*, reports on the OECD website are published under the responsibility of the OECD Secretariat and are in principle based on information available as of December 2024.
   * The "Assessment and Recommendations" were endorsed by member countries at the OECD Working Party on Environmental Performance in December 2024.

Contact

International Strategy Division, Global Environment Bureau
Ministry of the Environment
Representative Number: +81-3-3581-3351
Direct Number: +81-3-5521-8243

NAITO Fuyumi, Director
SEKI Satoshi, Assistant Director
ONO Masayuki, Assistant Director