Report on the Results of the Fiscal 2020 Follow-up Survey on “JPA’s Commited Action Plan for a Low Carbon Society” and Related Information on Measures against Global Warming in the Japanese Paper Industry

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  • 2020年度低炭素社会実行計画フォローアップ調査結果（2019年度実績）と温暖化対策関連情報
  • 2020ネンド テイタンソ シャカイ ジッコウ ケイカク フォローアップ チョウサ ケッカ(2019ネンド ジッセキ)ト オンダンカ タイサク カンレン ジョウホウ

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<p>The Japan Paper Association （JPA） established its “Voluntary Action Plan on Environment” in 1997, in response to The Japan Business Federation’s call to the Japanese business community to organize “The Voluntary Action Plan on Environment”. Since then, JPA has carried out a follow-up survey and published the results every year.</p><p>As the Voluntary Action Plan finished in fiscal 2012, JPA newly started “the Action Plans towards a Low Carbon Society” and has been actively addressing global warming prevention in order to achieve the following targets set in the plan：</p><p>・Compared to BAU scenario （based on specific CO2 emission rate of 2005）, reduce fossil energy-derived CO2 emissions by 1.39 million tons by fiscal 2020.</p><p>・In view of securing forest resources and increasing forest carbon sink, expand forest plantation areas owned or managed by the paper industry at home and abroad to 700 thousand hectares by fiscal 2020.</p><p>According to the results of the fiscal 2020 follow-up survey（actual results for fiscal 2019）, fossil-energy derived CO2 emissions in fiscal 2019 was 16.58 million tons, a 4.9％ reduction compared to the fiscal 2018 （17.42 million tons）. Compared to BAU scenario, fossil energy-derived CO2 emissions were reduced by 3.81 million tons, achieving the target of 1.39 million tons reduction by fiscal 2020.</p><p>This is attributed to each manufacturer’s active efforts including energy saving and energy conversion from fossil energy to non-fossil energy such as biomass energy.</p><p>In addition to the results of the follow-up survey, this report introduces the current energy situation in the Japanese paper industry, outline of the next phase of JPA’s Action Plan for Low Carbon Society spanning the ten-year period from fiscal 2021 through 2030 and the latest information of countermeasures against global warming.</p>

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  • JAPAN TAPPI JOURNAL

    JAPAN TAPPI JOURNAL 75 (4), 332-348, 2021

    JAPAN TECHNICAL ASSOCIATION OF THE PULP AND PAPER INDUSTRY

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