people

Yoshihiro Yamamoto

Director-General, Environmental Regeneration and Material Cycles Bureau, Ministry of the Environment, Japan

Yoshihiro Yamamoto has extensive experience from the Ministry of the environment.

He joined the Ministry of the environment in 1985. He was appointed as Deputy Director General for Cybersecurity and Information Technology in 2016 and was appointed Deputy Director-General of the Environmental Regeneration and Material Cycles Bureau in 2017. He has been in his current position since 2018.

Yoshihiro Yamamoto is speaking at the following WCEF2018 session:

Mon 22 October at 14:30 : Building a Sound-Material Cycle Society: Learnings from Japan

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Project

WCEF2018

The World Circular Economy Forum presents the world’s best circular economy solutions and brings together key circular economy thinkers and doers from around the world.

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Topic

A circular economy

Circular economy solutions are needed to safeguard biodiversity and solve the climate crisis. In a circular economy we maintain the value of what we produce through smarter design and shifting from owning products to using services.

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Theme

Sustainability transition

The life, well-being and economy of Finns fully depend on nature. How can we change the way we operate so that we build a good life, successful business and sustainable public finances within the limits of nature’s carrying capacity?

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