報告書番号

V14016

タイトル（和文）

生物多様性条約に関わる国際動向調査-電気事業の事業活動や環境経営の視点から-

タイトル（英文）

Report on recent international trends related to the Convention on Biological Diversity -From the viewpoint of Environmental Management of Electric Power Industry-

概要 （図表や脚注は「報告書全文」に掲載しております）

生物多様性条約に関連した電気事業の事業活動や環境経営に影響を及ぼす可能性のある新たな動きや課題を明らかにするため，生物多様性条約COP-10以降の生物多様性に関する国内外の動向を整理・分析した．電気事業に直接影響する具体的な政策の導入につながる条約決議はなかったが，生物多様性や生態系サービスの経済価値評価を国や企業の環境会計に組み込んだ事例が議論され，標準化にむけた取り組みが進んでいた．また，海外では生物多様性オフセットやオフセット・バンキング制度の導入の動きがみられたが，導入に伴う社会的・技術的課題については議論が続いている状況が確認された．民間企業においても，生物多様性の経済価値評価などを事業活動や環境経営に活用する動きが広がってきており，電気事業でも検討の必要性が生じる可能性があると考えられた．

概要 （英文）

Since Aichi Biodiversity Targets had been adopted at the 10th Conference of the Parties (COP-10) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in 2010, various sectors including businesses has been implementing new initiatives and activities to achieve the targets. These activities could be reflected in some policies, plans and guidelines, and thus could affect the environmental management activities in electric power industries. In this paper, we analyzed international and domestic trends related to biodiversity particularly after COP-10, and discussed their potential effect to the electric power industry in Japan. Among participants in COP-11 and COP-12 to CBD, possibility to mobilize financial resources from business such as biodiversity offsets and payment for ecosystem services has been discussed, with strong need to expand financial resources for conservation. Analysis of 97 web news articles about biodiversity and electric power industry or business sector indicated that most of articles were about non-regulatory responses and guidelines, however, some articles indicated introduction of new regulations such as biodiversity offsets. Our analysis indicated that recent social trends are not in direction toward introducing additional risk to electric power industry, at present. Although, several topics related to environmental impact assessment or environmental accounting can introduce future risk and cost.

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