About this presentation

related to ATMOsphere Europe 2015
published on 16 March 2015
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Motoyuki Kumakura, from the Japanese Ministry of Environment (MOE) provided a promising update on Japan’s measures aimed at reducing f-gases and initiatives promoting natural refrigerants to the audience of ATMOsphere Europe 2015. As Kumakura highlighted, Japan enacted a law to phase-out f-gases already in 2001, but its measures in the recent strengthening of the regulations have been largely influenced by the EU’s move to reinforce f-gas controls this year. As Kumakura emphasised, however, cost still remains a drawback. For this reason the Japanese Government provides support to facilitate their introduction. For instance, the MOE has provided 5 billion Japanese Yen (€38,344) of subsidies to around 60 companies in Japan.

About the speaker(s)

Motoyuki Kumakura

 

Mr. Kumakura joined the Environment Agency in 1994. He was in charge of climate change policy, air pollution policy, nature conservation, nuclear safety. Mr. Kumakura later became the Director of the Office of Fluorocarbons Control Policy in Climate Change Policy Division. He currently holds this position in the Global Environment Bureau within the Ministry of the Environment, Government of Japan.