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Nikkei Ecology

November 2006 Issue

Cover Story

Clever ways to use subsidies and realize environmental measures

Trend: Do not miss the opportunities to get subsidies available for various products - from industrial complexes to chewing gum removers

Energy-saving: Assessment of energy-saving effects is the first step in a successful procedure, which can be enforced with a good appeal in application and sound explanation in the ex post facto report

New energy: Good negotiation tactics can move the government office to your side and win subsidy money that can add more value to the products

Distribution: Good cooperation between the shipper and distributor is the key to succeed without getting lost in the complicated system

Data: Do not miss these less-known subsidies including the new schemes targeting smaller businesses

Report

Recycle
Oil price hike expands demands for recycled plastics and reuse of products to a full-scales

Learn about Technologies

First Step in Technology
[Hybrid system] Now ready to be used in trains, ships and construction machinery, hybrid systems support energy conservation of the transportation sector

Products
[Shinkansen N700 series] Streamlined bodies with reduced air resistance can cut energy consumption by 19%

Natural Energy
[Bio diesel] Test drives continue to reveal problems for using waste food oil in co-generation systems

Fuel Cell
[SOFC combined power generation] Waste gas from the fuel cell can run a turbine to realize nearly 70% generating efficiency

“Honor Students” in Recycling
[End-of-life automobiles] Specific gravity separator helps 1-billion-yen annual sales by recovering parts and fuels

Learn about Environmental Laws

Easy-to-Understand Environmental Law
[Critical eye on the Automobile Recycling Law Part 2] Is the ASR recycling going well?

How to Read the Waste Disposal Law Part 10
Penalties

EU Regulations to Challenge Japanese Corporations Part 5
TC111 (Technical Committee)

Environmental Laws Q & A
How do they decide the number of stars for the new energy-saving labels effective in October?

This Month’s Environmental Law
New standards are set for the top-runner system to bring about energy-saving competition based on actual use

Trend and News

Environmental Risk
Sakhalin II is not the only suspended project that shows importance of environmental preservation and public consensus

Recycling
AEON decides to start charging for the plastic shopping bags in the beginning of 2007 to prepare for the nearing promulgation of the Revised Law for Promotion of Sorted Collection and Recycling of Containers and Packaging

Preventing Global Warming
Tokyo and Osaka are to follow Nagoya to try out emission right trading among private sectors

CSR
After a customer develops chemical sensitivity syndrome from using an electric heater, Ito-Yokado gets a court order to pay compensation as a seller

Eco Car
Honda undergoes full model change to downsize the fuel cells to the size of an engine

Global Warming
Survey for 2,000 companies worldwide on global warming measures reveals increased interest in CDM

Natural Energy
Wind farm plan in Izumo finds solution for the landscape issue but still struggles to reach consensus

Environmental Awareness
Sixty percent of citizens consider that companies have responsibility for industrial waste treatment

Environmental Destruction
Dam upstream accelerates coastal erosion, wiping out sand dunes from the Sea of Enshu

CSR Frontline

SRI may take off in Japan soon while movement for promotion expands both at home and abroad

The youth should learn business before CSR, career development advisers say


Climate Change Policies
Q and A to understand climate change policies

Q: Why did the base-year emission change?
A: Allocation increased as a result of recalculation


Learn about Environmental Issues

Truth and False of Environmental Science
[Aluminum] Is it still true that aluminum is a cause of dementia?

Threats Waiting around the Corner
A “head of a beauty” on the sea bottom accuses us of the waste damping, saying that the ocean has become a graveyard of waste and taking the UN into starting measures

Junko Edahiro’s Eye-opening Facts on Environmental Terms in English
[biofuel]


Column

Kankan Gakugaku (Active Argument over Environmental Issues)
Masao Kosuge, director of Asahiyama Zoo

Secret Tips for Environmental Management
Token CSR will not change anything

Cuisines of Japan
Ancient knowledge to use nuts wisely

Honest Opinions by the “Eco-Moms”
Food safety

Artisanship in repairing
Binoculars (Cosmos)

The reality of NPOs
[OISCA-International] Collaboration with Tokio Marine & Nichido Fire Insurance increases publicity and expands its fields to 14 countries

Repot

Inside-Out
[Faults of “no-one-left-behind policy” Part 1] First lawsuit to seek liability of national government on asbestos cases starts at the Sennan District of Osaka

From BusinessWeek
Global warming issues debated hot in the U.S. Congress

WorldWatch Institute
Accelerated global warming is to be blamed for the intensified damage of Katrina and loss of 1,800 lives

ECO Seminar

How to Make the Best Use of ISO
[Dentsu] Environmental slogan competition raises awareness of employees

Quick Guide to Environmental Key Words
“CSR”

World Trend

From EU
Dutch new system with 900,000-yen tax break for hybrid cars may become an EU standard

From UK
While avoiding risk is difficult for emission right trading, rights for CDM and JI are priced around 20 Euro

From USA
Ethanol is used in the Indy 500 to promote its high efficiency to the world

From Germany
Reinforcement of workforce and reduction of resource costs are the keys to realize the goal to double the resource productivity by 2020

From China
Extended limit for automobile use is to reduce the number of scrapping and bring more business opportunities to parts manufactures