Survey on Disposal of General Waste This survey is conducted every year by the Ministry of the Environment to obtain basic data concerning general waste disposal services and general waste disposal facilities, such as the volume of discharged waste, by municipality (shi (city), ku (ward), machi (town) and mura (village)). The survey covers municipalities and administrative associations. Survey on Discharge and Disposal of Industrial Waste This survey has been conducted by the Ministry of the Environment every 5 years since fiscal 1975, and every year since fiscal 1990 with a purpose to investigate the discharge and disposal of industrial wastes. This survey clarifies amount of output, recycle use, midway disposal, and final disposal of industrial wastes by prefecture. Covered industries are 18 categories of businesses selected from Japan Standard Industrial Classification (Rev.12, 13) in which industrial wastes are presumably produced. And, covered wastes are 19 categories of waste as specified by the Waste Management and Public Cleansing Act. mechanism to achieve the targets. In addition, the Paris Agreement, a new international framework on climate change for 2020 and beyond, was adopted at COP21 held in Paris, France, in December 2015 and came into effect in November 2016. In the Paris Agreement, the "2°C goal" (to keep the global average temperature rise well below 2°C above pre-industrial revolution and to pursue efforts to keep the temperature rise to 1.5°C), etc. was set as a long-term goal common to the world. COP26 was held in Glasgow, the UK, from October to November 2021 and reached agreements on important agenda items including Article 6 of the Paris Agreement (market mechanisms), thereby completing the “Paris Rulebook”. Pollution Complaint Survey This survey is conducted every year by the Environmental Dispute Coordination Commission. It is designed to illuminate complaints against environmental pollution that are received at the office for pollution complaints in a local public body and how they are processed. The purpose is to examine the nature of pollution complaints, to provide data as basic materials for pollution control measures and to contribute to smooth processing of pollution complaints. This survey was started in fiscal 1994 combining two precedent surveys; the Survey of Number of Pollution Complaint Cases and the Status of Pollution Complaint Treatments by Local Governments. 17 Environment 401
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