Annual Report on the Environment and the Sound Material-Cycle Society in Japan 2007

Overview1: Accelerating Global Warming and Countermeasure Technologies
Overview2: Technologies to Support a Sound Material-Cycle Society - Development of 3R and Waste Management Technologies -


The FY2006 Status of the Environment
The FY2006 Status of the Establishment of a Sound Material-Cycle Society

Part One: Overview [PDF 16KB]

Overview 1. Accelerating Global Warming and Countermeasure Technologies
Chapter 1. Geological Activity and Biodiversity [PDF 182KB]
Chapter 2. Global warming and biodiversity [PDF 217KB]
  • Section 1. Geological Activity and Biodiversity
  • Section 2. Crisis of Ecosystems
  • Section 3. Global Warming-Caused Changes in Ecosystems and its Impacts on Human Beings
Chapter 3.Technologies to Support Measures for Mitigating Global Warming[PDF 1,198KB]
  • Section 1: Transformation into a Sustainable Society
  • Section 1. Transformation into a sustainable society
  • Section 2. Current status of countermeasures and the contribution of technologies
  • Section 3. Our past experiences to overcome environmental problems with technologies
  • Section 4. Global warming countermeasures
  • Section 5. Visions of the future utilization of global warming countermeasures Conclusion. A Low-Carbon Society
Overview 2. Technologies to Support a Sound Material-Cycle Society -Development of 3R and Waste Management Technologies- [PDF 5,454KB]
  • Executive Summary
  • Section 1. The Need for Global Promotion of the 3Rs and the Role of Japan's Technologies
  • Section 2. Technologies for a Sound Material-Cycle Society
  • Section 3. Policies and Measures to Promote the Development and Introduction of Technologies
  • Section 4. Development of 3R and Waste Management Facilities and International Contributions in the Future

Part Two
Current Issues in Environmental Conservation and Formation of a Sound Material-Cycle Society, and Government Measures thereon [PDF 626KB]

Measures on Environmental Conservation to be Implemented in FY2007
Measures on Formation of a Sound Material-Cycle Society to be Implemented in FY2007

Back Cover [PDF 66KB]