製紙産業の省エネ推進状況

Abstract

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 the unit of purchased energy for paper products by 10% from that of 1990 level.JPA has been following through on activities in saving energies from fiscal 1998-1990 as a basic period, and has been making its results public every year. For the convenience of complying data, targets were changed from the calendar year to the fiscal year midway. The following are the results for fiscal 2000 : Unit of purchased energy in fiscal 2000 was smoothly reduced by 7.2% from the level in 1990. However, the reduction in a unit of CO2 emissions remained 4.9% because cost competitive coals have been largely used.Paper and paperboard production increased by 13. 1% in fiscal 2000 compared to that of 1990 level, whereas, increase in CO2 emissions remained at 7.6% from the 1990 level. A breakdown of the 5.5% reduction from 13. 1% to 7.6% shows that the pulp and paper industry decreased by 4.2% and electric companies contribute to reducing the remaining 1. 3% (from effective generating and transmission electricity).According to 29 companies that replied to our questionnaires, a total of 23.1 billion yen was invested in energy saving measures for fiscal 2000 and the crude oil equivalent of energy saved reached 176 thousand kiloliters per year. As far as the estimation from 27 companies, 93.0 billion yen will be invested and 4, 884 thousand kiloliters per year will be saved from 2000 onwards.