GOSAT-GW Launch Results
The Ministry of the Environment announced that the Global Observing SATellite for Greenhouse gases and Water cycle, “GOSATGW,” was launched from the JAXA Tanegashima Space Center and placed into its...
Ministry of the Environment reports
FY2024 Supplementary Budget Draft and Measures
The November 2024 documents titled “Regarding the FY2024 Supplementary Budget Draft” and “FY2024 Supplementary Budget Draft Measures” present policies in three chapters, including regional...
G7 Sapporo Climate, Energy and Environment Ministerial Meeting
The G7 Climate, Energy and Environment Ministers’ Meeting is held in connection with the G7 Summit and serves as a ministerial meeting that lays the foundation for discussions among the leaders. Held...
COP30 Meetings and Adoption of Decision Documents
From November 10 to November 22, 2025, COP30, CMP20, CMA7, SBSTA63, and SBI63 were held in Belem, Federative Republic of Brazil, and decision documents and other materials were adopted. Japan...
Japan’s Circular Economy Vision Under the Action Plan | Chapter 1Japan’s Action Plan to Accelerate the Circular Economy
This policy positions the transition to a circular economy as a national strategy supporting industrial competitiveness, regional revitalization, and economic security in addition to reducing...
Japan’s Circular Economy Vision Under the Action Plan | Chapter 2Resource Competition and Japan’s Circular Economy Challenges
While competition for recycled resources as well as primary resources is intensifying worldwide, Japan faces the overseas outflow of iron scrap and recycled plastics, concentrated sourcing of...
Japan’s Circular Economy Vision Under the Action Plan | Chapter 3Advancing the Circular Economy
Japan is shifting from a linear economy based on mass production, mass consumption, and mass disposal to a circular economy that reuses waste as resources and creates added value. Through building a...
Japan’s Circular Economy Vision Under the Action Plan | Chapter 4Action Plan for Resilient Recycled-Resource Supply Chains
The Circular Economy Action Plan compiled in April 2026 positions recycling and the use of recycled materials for critical minerals and metal resources as issues of economic security and industrial...
Japan’s Circular Economy Vision Under the Action Plan | Chapter 5Comprehensive Climate Action and Adaptation
Japan is comprehensively advancing greenhouse gas emissions reductions, the strengthening of scientific knowledge, the realization of a decarbonized society and GX, transitions in regions and...
Japan’s Circular Economy Vision Under the Action Plan | Chapter 6Implementing the National Biodiversity Strategy 2023–2030
Based on the KunmingMontreal Global Biodiversity Framework adopted in December 2022, Japan’s Cabinet approved the National Biodiversity Strategy 2023–2030 in March 2023. Toward a society in harmony...