Attached document 1: Other policies involving LPG

 Following is the summary of the GOJ’s energy policies and action plans in connection with the LPG industry in addition to the outline of the relevant issues such as SDGs and the Paris Agreement that are closely linked to context of this report;

1. Strategic Energy Plan

 The GOJ released its 5th Strategic Energy Plan in July 2018. Under this plan, direction for further development of our social economy, improvement of citizen’s life and contributions to the sustainable development of this world were shown based on the stable, long-lasting and autonomous energy supply. It also emphasized the importance of realizing a stable energy supply & demand structure with less burden on the economy as well as on the environment under the principle of S+3E (Safety, Energy security, Environment and Economic efficiency).

 With regard to LPG, which accounts for 3% of primary energy and 5% of final energy consumption in Japan, the GOJ placed an emphasis on its status as a “Last Resort” energy supply in case of disasters, while committing itself to reviewing a relevant measure for further enhancement of disaster response capability.

2. National Resilience Plan

 The National Resilience Plan was legislated in June 2014, and was revised in December 2018. Under the basic concept of the revised Plan, additional policies were shown such as building an “autonomous, decentralized and cooperative” national land infrastructure as well as strengthening measures against climate change. The Plan also indicated the importance to seek energy diversification of transport fuels.

 Furthermore, the Plan urged that the LPG industry should strive to reinforce its disaster response capability on its distribution infrastructure by securing and maintaining the national LPG stockpile, in addition to maintaining and strengthening the functions of LPG filling stations as well as to promoting installation of private power generators at key facilities (such as evacuation centers) while regularly replenishing the stockpile in preparation for disasters.

3. Long-term Strategy under the Paris Agreement

 The GOJ’s “Long-term Strategy under the Paris Agreement” was submitted to the secretariat office of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in June 2019 after the cabinet adoption, and was released at the G20 Osaka meeting so as to show the GOJ’s standpoint to commit to the Paris Agreement.

 Following is the summary of the strategy:

 This strategy emphasizes the importance of achieving a decarbonized society while maximizing the co-benefit with other SDGs as well as the contribution to climate change thought the implementation of the “Society5.0” (described below) which shows a direction towards resolving social issues and creating values by means of a digital revolution, people’s imagination, and creativity with the harmonic interactions in the energy, mobility, and digitalization fields.

4. Strategy for Revolutionary Innovation of the Environment

 An enormous amount of money will be required for realizing the above-mentioned Long-term Strategy under the Paris Agreement. Based on the government’s estimates, seven trillion US dollars per year worldwide will be required to achieve a two-degree centigrade target. It will need further costs to realize the promise of our more ambitious efforts - a 1.5 degree centigrade target.

 In order to reduce GHG emissions at global level, it is crucial to develop discontinuous innovation and to implement it into society without delay at an attainable cost.

 The “Environment Revolution Strategy” released in January 2020 by the GOJ was based on the aforementioned Long-term Strategy and consisted of the following three points:

 Under this strategy, it is aimed to develop innovative technology and its implementation into society for realizing a carbon neutral world by 2050 in line with a goal stipulated in the strategy.

5. Society 5.0

 Under the “5th Basic Plan for Science and Technology” issued in 2018, the GOJ proposed the realization of a super smart society called “Society 5.0”. It follows the current information society called “Society 4.0” where various environmental and social problems have surfaced the world while digital technologies have witnessed a significant progress and new era called Digital Transformation (DX) is approaching. In “Society 5.0”, people would become able to create new values through their imagination and creativity derived from the use of DX. Also, “Diversity,” “Decentralization,” “Resilience” and “Sustainability while living with nature would be the key phrases. It aims to build a society in which whoever, wherever, whenever – everyone could live safely together with nature and could create value.

6. ESG Investment

 CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) is understood to be the responsibility and mission companies need to promote. On the other hand, under the ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) concept, evaluations shall be made, considering the company’s non-financial status of its efforts and actions on environmental, social and governance factors from the long-term viewpoint of investors.

 Particularly in recent years, investment criteria are shifting to take a closer look at company’s activities than ever on how the company’s business is aligning with the SDGs. This movement is called “ESG” and is becoming more prominent worldwide￥

Attached Drawing 1: Relation to CSR, ESG and SDGs

Attached Drawing 2: The positioning of ‘LPG Long Term Contribution’ and various policies

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Attached document 2: Correlation between the SDGs and the roles of LPG

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