Japan

Since the beginning of the COVID19 pandemic in early 2020, Japan has committed at least USD 1.65 billion to supporting different energy types through new or amended policies, according to official government sources and other publicly available information. These public money commitments include:

At least USD 1.61 billion for unconditional fossil fuels through 3 policies (2 quantified and 1 unquantified)
No public money commitments identified for conditional fossil fuels
At least USD 46.19 million for unconditional clean energy through 1 policy (1 quantified)
No public money commitments identified for conditional clean energy
No public money commitments identified for other energy

Updated: 21 October 2020

At least

$1.61 billion

Supporting fossil fuel energy

$12.73

Per capita

At least

$46.19 million

Supporting clean energy

$0.37

Per capita

By energy type, Japan committed at least USD 1.61 billion to oil and gas (at least USD 1.61 billion to unconditional oil and gas).

In addition, no public money commitments identified for coal.

Further, no public money commitments identified for hydrogen based on fossil fuels.

Finally, no public money commitments identified for multiple fossil fuels.

A considerably larger amount of public money committed to supporting the economy and people of Japan through monetary and fiscal policies in response to the crisis may also benefit different elements of the energy sector. However, these values are not available from official legislation and statements and therefore are not included in the database. Meanwhile, in addition to monetary and fiscal measures, the database lists other policies and regulations that can also provide benefits to producers and consumers of different energy types.

These public money commitments are additional to many other government policies that had existed to support different energy types before the COVID19 pandemic.

Public money commitments to fossil fuels, clean and other energy in recovery packages, USD billion, as of 21 October 2020

Policies

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Country	Jurisdiction	Category	Policy name	Sector	Energy Type	Mechanism	Value committed, USD	Date of announcement	Policy type	Stage	Legislation and Endorsing Agency	Arm of Government	Primary and secondary stated objective of the policy	Value as stated (specify currency)	Value committed, national currency	Policy background	Links to official sources
Japan	National	Fossil unconditional	Guarantee for Loans to ANA by Private Financial Institutions for Importing Aircraft	Mobility	Oil and oil products	Loan guarantee (Hybrid)	790798651.20791	2020063030/06/2020	Fiscal	Energy use (all energy types, consumption in transport, household use, buildings etc)	Japan Bank for International Cooperation	Government	Primary: support airline company's import of air craft in the context of operational difficulty under C-19.	JPY 85.6 billion	85600000000	Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) provides this guarantee in order to support ANA in obtaining financing from private financial institutions to import 6 aircraft from The Boeing Company in the U.S. and Airbus S.A.S. in France. It will contribute to maintaining and improving the international competitiveness of the Japanese aviation industry.	https://www.jbic.go.jp/en/information/press/press-2020/0630-013535.html
Japan	National	Fossil unconditional	Guarantee for Loans to Japan Airlines (JAL) by Private Financial Institutions for Importing Aircraft	Mobility	Oil and oil products	Loan guarantee (Hybrid)	816665896.80817	2020060909/06/2020	Fiscal	Energy use (all energy types, consumption in transport, household use, buildings etc)	Japan Bank for International Cooperation	Government	Primary: support airline company's import of air craft in the context of operational difficulty under C-19.	JPY 88.4 billion	88400000000	Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) provides this guarantee in order to support JAL in obtaining financing from private financial institutions to import 8 aircraft from The Boeing Company in the U.S. and Airbus S.A.S. in France. It will contribute to maintaining and improving the international competitiveness of the Japanese aviation industry.	https://www.jbic.go.jp/en/information/press/press-2020/0609-013422.html
Japan	National	Fossil unconditional	Extension of temporary relief of automobile tax and light vehicle tax environmental performance fee	Mobility	Oil and oil products	Tax or royalty or govt fee bre...		2020042020/04/2020	Fiscal	Energy use (all energy types, consumption in transport, household use, buildings etc)	Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications	Government	to reduce the negative impacts of the COVID-19-related restrictions on the economy			The applicable rates of the differentiated automobile tax/light vehicle environmental performance fee were reduced by one per centage point. Since the tax is levied locally, the national government committed to compensate local budgets for the losses.	https://web.archive.org/web/20200618073700/ https://www.soumu.go.jp/main_content/000686227.pdf https://www5.cao.go.jp/keizai1/keizaitaisaku/2020/20200420_economic_measures_all.pdf
Japan	National	Clean unconditional	Support for on-site solar power generation	Power generation	Solar	Budget or off-budget transfer ...	46191510.000462	2020060808/06/2020	Fiscal	Electricity generation	Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications	Government	Support clean, disaster-proof energy	¥5,000,000,000	5000000000	Support the installation of self-consumption, on-site solar power generation facilities through PPA. Also includes support for supply chain reform and domestic investment in production bases.	https://www.env.go.jp/guide/budget/r02/r0204-hos-gaiyo/005.pdf Accessed 8 June 2020

Research

Impact of COVID-19 on Japan and India: Climate, Energy and Economic Stimulus Still Digging: Japan issue brief Visualisation approach and economic incentives toward low carbon practices in households: A survey study in Hyogo, Japan Circulating and Ecological Economy - Regional and Local CES: An IGES Proposal

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