OSAKA -- The Kansai Economic Federation (Kankeiren) on Thursday released its voluntary environment action plan, which includes the energy-saving and recycling plans of 153 of its member firms.
It shows that more than 90 percent of the firms are working on reducing or recycling their waste, but that many of them feel the need to work more on such areas as energy conservation in transportation-related activities and contribute more to environment preservation movements overseas. But unlike a similar plan released by the Japan Federation of Economic Organizations earlier this year, many of the companies' plans do not set numerical targets for their goals.
Kankeiren officials said the organization will renew the plan a year later with hopes of including evaluations and introducing programs by companies which did not participate this year. The organization plans to distribute an English-language version of the plan's summary at the third conference of the signatory countries to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP3), scheduled to be held in Kyoto next month.