The Japan Paper Association (JPA) has been actively working to save energy since 1997 when it established its “Voluntary Action Plan on Environmental Issues”. JPA declared its policy of restraining CO2 emissions as one of the actions : By 2010, reduce fossil energy consumption per product unit for paper products by 13% from that of 1990 level.
Since FY 1990, JPA has been following through on the actual results of the unit of energy in the year, and has been publishing its results compared with that in 1990. The following are the results for FY 2004 and reports of energy situation in the pulp and paper industry in Japan.
The survey also reported on energy consumption, CO₂ emissions and the position of the pulp and paper industry in Japan as related information.