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Your environmental type diagnosis!

You work with others to care for the environment and understand how people feel.

You bring people together and expand environmental action through cooperation. Caring for the environment doesn’t have to be done alone. When actions are shared and supported, they become easier to continue. You are skilled at connecting people and turning environmental efforts into something everyone can take part in.

  • Teamwork
  • Empathy
  • Support

Inside a manga artist’s studio, the lights in the archive room are left on again. One of the assistants asks, “Who was the last one out?” Everyone looks at each other in silence. The manga artist suddenly raises a hand. “Okay! I’ve got an idea.” The manga artist explains, “Whoever turns off the lights gets one point. Collect five points and you win a grand prize!” One assistant asks, “Sensei… what exactly is this ‘grand prize’?” The manga artist smiles. Then the manga artist reveals the prize. “A handmade certificate with your very own portrait!” The assistants are surprised. “Drawn by sensei?” A few days later, the assistants start competing to turn off the lights. “I’ll turn them off!” “No, I will!” The manga artist laughs and says, You all really want that prize, don’t you? At the end of the comic, a message appears: “Your words bring people together.”

In responding to the three global crises of climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution, there is a growing worldwide need to build socio-economic systems that integrate measures such as net-zero, nature-positive, and a circular economy. In Japan, the Basic Environment Plan has been formulated in order to promote policies for environmental conservation across the entire government in a comprehensive and systematic manner.

The Sixth Basic Environment Plan, approved by the Cabinet in May 2024, puts “the quality of life, level of happiness, well-being and economic welfare of each person present and in the future” (hereinafter referred to as “well-being/quality of life”) as its top objective, and also positions this as contributing to “the welfare of humankind.”

“Well-being/quality of life” consists of both market value and non-market value, and includes subjective well-being such as self-affirmation, representing true “affluence” in modern society. This plan is based on a strong sense of urgency regarding the three crises of climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution.

Decarbonization (Carbon Neutrality): Net Zero

To address climate change, a global challenge, we aim to achieve carbon neutrality by reducing greenhouse gas emissions to net zero overall. Achieving net zero requires both reducing greenhouse gas emissions and preserving and enhancing natural absorption processes.

Nature Positive

By halting and reversing biodiversity loss to place nature on a path to recovery, this approach goes beyond simply protecting nature. It seeks to transform society and the economy as a whole so that they contribute to the conservation of biodiversity and related goals.

Circular Economy

To build a circular society, it is essential to shift away from a one-way, linear economic model based on mass production, mass consumption, and mass disposal. Instead, we must promote a circular economy that uses resources efficiently and sustainably, circulating them within the system.

Actions best suited for the Team Player

  • Decarbonization

    You work together with family, colleagues, and your community to move forward with energy-saving actions and new ideas.

  • Nature Positive

    Through activities such as clean-up efforts and nature experiences, you deepen your connection with nature by working with others.

  • Circular Economy

    You make use of systems like sharing and reuse, taking care of resources through collective action.

The Team Player's Role

The Team Player’s strength is the ability to spread environmental action beyond a small group. By supporting others and lowering the barriers to action together, you help environmental efforts take root in society.

Environmental Types
About the Sixth Basic Environment Plan (PDF)
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