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Cabinet Decision Made on the FY2020 Annual Report on Energy (Japan's Energy White Paper 2021)
June 4, 2021
Agency for Natural Resources and Energy
The Annual Report on Energy (also known as the "Energy White Paper") summarizes the measures on energy supply and demand that the Government of Japan implemented in the previous fiscal year. It is submitted to the Diet pursuant to Article 11 of the Basic Act on Energy Policy (Act No. 71 of 2002). On June 4, 2021, a Cabinet Decision was made on the Energy White Paper 2021.
Outline of the report
Each year, the Energy White Paper describes the energy trends and the status of measures taken regarding energy supply and demand in the previous fiscal year. In addition to these data, this year's paper introduces the following.
(1) Progress in reconstruction in Fukushima
- The current situation regarding the support provided to victims of the nuclear accident, e.g., developing environments that will encourage evacuees to return home;
- Deciding the basic policy regarding disposal of ALPS treated water;
- Progress in decommissioning, e.g., fuel debris retrieval
(2) Challenges and efforts toward achieving carbon neutrality by 2050
- Changes in the energy landscape;
- Trends in decarbonization in other countries;
- Japan's challenges and efforts toward achieving carbon neutrality by 2050; etc.
(3) Changes in energy security
- A summary of energy security so far;
- Structural changes in energy security (response to climate change as a new challenge, cybersecurity, etc.);
- Quantitative evaluation of energy security taking into account structural changes; etc.
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Division in Charge
Research and Public Relations Office, Policy Planning and Coordination Division, Commissioner's Secretariat, Agency for Natural Resources and Energy
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