Japan Iron & Steel Federation reported to Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade & Industry that the steel industry's energy consumption was 2,159 peta joules and carbon dioxide emission from energy was 176.3 million tonnes in fiscal 2008 ended March 2009, which was 11.5% and 12.1% lower than the level in fiscal 1990.

The reduction of energy consumption and CO2 emission was higher than the target of 10% and 9% reduction for fiscal 2010 under the voluntary action program for environmental protection. The industry tries to keep effort to clear the target when the reduction was mainly due to 3.2% lower raw steel output at 101.334 million tonnes in fiscal 2008 from fiscal 1990.

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