Current environmental issues stem from the excessive environmental burden of the daily lives of the people and ordinary business activities. To resolve these issues, we have to reform the modalities of modern society based on mass production, mass consumption, and mass disposal into a sustainable one. 　

In order to take specific measures toward this goal, the Ministry of the Environment has been:

1) Carrying out various measures single-handedly for the areas of such as waste measures, pollution control, natural environmental conservation, and protection of wild animals and plants.
2) Taking measures in cooperation with the other ministries and agencies for the areas of global warming, ozone layer protection, recycling, chemical substances, marine pollution prevention, conservation of forests, green space, rivers and lakes, Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA), and monitoring and measuring of radioactive materials.
3) Actively leading the environmental policy of the entire government through such efforts as the Basic Environment Plan.