| Name of city |
Subsidy for PV |
Climate change plan |
RE & EE plan for new building |
Others |
Division in charge of climate change measures |
Corporation with other divisions |
Other climate change measures |
| Sapporo |
✔ |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
Encouraging stable citizens' eco-actions: Developing educational projects aiming to reduce CO2 emissions in a concrete way: Requires businesses to submit environment conservation action plan and car use and management plan. |
| Sendai |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
Environmentally-Friendly City Promotion Section |
Communicating within the government. |
Implemented educational campaign and seminars on demand. |
| Saitama |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
Global Warming Prevention Office |
Established a promotion headquarters. |
N/A |
| Chiba |
✔ |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
Environment Management Division, Environment Conservation Department, Environment Bureau |
Established Environment Basic Plan Promotion Committee as a supervising organization. |
Promoting environmental accounting and campaign to reduce combustible waste by one-third. |
| Yokohama |
✔ |
✔ |
N/A |
N/A |
Climate Change Policy Headquarters |
N/A |
N/A |
| Kawasaki |
✔ |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
Global Environment & Sustainability Office of the Environmental Protection Bureau |
Established Headquarters for global warming prevention to have related divisions work together. |
Carbon Challenge Kawasaki Eco Conference, Global Warming Countermeasure Area Promotion Plan, Promotion Headquarters for Countermeasures against Global Warming, Kawasaki new energy vision, Kawasaki eco-office plan. |
| Niigata |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
Under discussion about incentive programs such as eco-point systems. |
To establish Nigata City climate change policy committee |
Established to Environment Conservation Committee to coordinate related divisions and promote city policies. |
N/A |
| Shizuoka |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
Shizuoka City |
Developed Eco-Model City plan: Established a headquarters to conduct a survey on regional voluntary programs. |
N/A |
| Hamamatsu |
✔ |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
Environmental Planning Division, Environmental Department |
N/A |
N/A |
| Nagoya |
N/A |
✔ |
N/A |
loan support for small and medium-scale businesses |
Global Warming Countermeasures Office, Environmental Affairs Bureau |
Established the Promotion Committee for Environment Capital Nagoya led by deputy mayor to enhance cooperation within the city government. |
Promoting eco-friendly lifestyle by encouraging EXPO money system that enables participants to gain points for their eco-friendly actions: Dispatching energy saving advisors to businesses to give advices based on handbooks of energy saving initiatives. |
| Kyoto |
✔ |
✔ |
✔ |
N/A |
Global Warming Prevention Office |
Established Global Warming Prevention Office in 2005. Transferred global warming countermeasures tasks from Environment Bureau to City Planning Bureau, and set a post of Global Environment Policy Director as a supervisor of major policies on global warming prevention. |
Main projects listed in Eco-Model City Action Plan: (1) "Town to Walk: Kyoto" project to develop human-friendly roads and towns: (2) "Town of Wood and Forests: Kyoto" project to develop low-carbon landscapes: (3) Changes in lifestyles and technology innovation; "DO YOU KYOTO?" project: International partnership with ICLEI and WMCCC. |
| Osaka |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
Environment Bureau |
Working together with other related divisions for curbing heat island effects. |
Operating "Naniwa Eco Conference", and developed Naniwa Eco-Life Certificate program. |
| Sakai |
✔ |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
Environment City Promotion Office |
Established Environmental City Promotion headquarters to work together with related divisions. |
Selected as one of Eco-Model Cities. Plan to promote initiatives toward low-carbon society. |
| Kobe |
✔ |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
Environmental Conservation Guidance Division, Environment Bureau |
Established Global Environment Conservation Headquarters in July 1992 to promote the policies comprehensively in the city. |
Established Action Program to Achieve GHG Emissions Reduction Targets in March 2008, a practical action plan as the result of CO2 emissions reduction program. |
| Hiroshima |
✔ |
✔ |
N/A |
System to be implemented by the ordinance: request electricity companies to submit plans about renewable energy utilization. |
Department of Resources, Energy and Global Warming,. Environment Bureau |
Established Energy and Global Warming Associated Session in 2008 to plan and establish effective and efficient policies for global warming issues and energy. |
Hiroshima Eco-Life Point program, Energy Saving Light Bulb campaign, No My Car Days program. |
| Kitakyushu |
✔ |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
World Environmental Capital Policy Division, Environment Bureau |
Established a headquarters for Eco-Model City Promotion and a project team to develop the action plan as an Eco-Model City, working together with related divisions. |
N/A |
| Fukuoka |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
Global Warming Countermeasure Section、 Environmental Bureau |
N/A |
N/A |
