Current situation of eco-business market scales of Japan and future forecast

Eco-business	Market scale (100 million yen)	Employment scale (persons)
1997	2010	1997	2010
A. Environment pollution control	142,140	188,430	311,258	340,350
Manufacturing of devices and pollution prevention materials	13,475	17,860	22,346	21,893
1. Air pollution prevention	3,052	3,660	4,826	4,286
2. Waste water treatment	9,824	10,828	15,550	12,593
3. Waste processing	89	387	201	611
4. Soil and water purification (including underground water)	15	2,408	24	2,962
5. Noise and vibration prevention	142	104	254	145
6. Environment measurement, analysis, and assessment	352	473	1,491	1,295
7. Others	—	—	—	—
Providing services	86,098	103,607	246,005	256,139
8. Air pollution prevention	—	—	—	—
9. Waste water treatment	9,569	12,111	8,575	7,991
10. Waste processing	73,904	85,202	226,174	231,496
11. Soil and water purification (including underground water)	356	3,225	1,290	5,223
12. Noise and vibration prevention	—	—	—	—
13. Research and development regarding environment	—	—	—	—
14. Engineering regarding environment	—	—	—	—
15. Analysis, data collection, measurement, and assessment	2,197	2,186	9,517	9,469
16. Education, training, and information distribution	21	348	133	806
17. Others	51	534	316	1,154
Construction and equipment installation	42,567	66,964	42,906	62,318
18. Air pollution prevention	0	59	0	72
19. Waste water treatment	33,942	57,884	30,515	52,040
20. Waste processing	7,196	6,421	11,107	7,868
21. Soil and water purification (including underground water)	—	—	—	—
22. Noise and vibration prevention	1,429	2,599	1,285	2,337
23. Environment measurement, analysis, and assessment	—	—	—	—
24. Others	—	—	—	—
B. Environmental load reduction technology and products (Manufacturing devices and providing technology, materials, and services)	2,256	5,464	3,516	8,774
1. Environment load reduction and energy conservation technology, and associated processes	0	2,500	0	5,747
2. Environment load reduction and resource conservation products	2,256	2,964	3,516	3,027
C. Effective use of resources (Manufacturing devices, providing technology, materials and services, construction and installation of equipment)	103,031	207,049	380,371	517,883
1. Prevention of indoor air pollution	—	—	—	—
2. Water supply	288	1,051	337	1,710
3. Renewable material	37,451	88,506	87,081	169,119
4. Recyclable energy facility	1,690	7,109	6,302	11,946
5. Energy conservation and energy control	7,560	24,949	12,619	25,777
6. Sustainable agriculture and fisheries	—	—	—	—
7. Sustainable forestry	—	—	—	—
8. Natural disaster prevention	—	—	—	—
9. Eco-tourism	—	—	—	—
10. Others (nature protection, eco-environment, bio diversity, etc.)	56,041	85,434	274,032	309,330
Grand total	247,426	400,943	695,145	867,007

While market globalization is progressing, the technologies that were developed by advanced enterprises are acquiring large market shares throughout the world. Since environmental problems are common world issues, the superiority of Japanese technology can also be developed further in the market relating to environmental measures, which is expected to expand further in the future.

## Notes:

1. Column A contains the items that are difficult to assume by distinguishing "manufacturing of devices and pollution prevention materials" and "construction and equipment installation." Therefore, those that are assumed to be ordered as individual devices only were classified as "manufacturing of devices and pollution prevention materials" and those that are assumed to be ordered as plants were classified as "construction and equipment installation."

2. Some items are marked as " - " due to unavailability of data.

3. Data of 1996 is used for some of the market scale of 1997.

Presentation: Ministry of the Environment

## 2 ) Environmental measures and employment

The report regarding "environmental policies and employment" that was announced by the OECD in 1997 indicates a slight positive effect of the influence of environmental measures on employment as a whole, although it is very small.

Regarding the employment creation condition in the environment field in each country, Germany provided employment for about 1.3 million in the environment field, which exceeds that of the machine manufacturing industry or the food related industry. In the USA also, the recycle and reuse industries created about 1.12 million jobs, which is equivalent to the automobile manufacturing industry.

Latent influence of environmental policies on employment

Sources: Prepared based on the "Environmental Protection and Employment" (1998) (modelled on OECD "Environmental Policies and Employment" (1997) by Ministry of the Environment in Germany