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Tetsuro Sakuka

Executive Director of the International Environmental Economic Affairs Department, Environment Bureau, the City of Kitakyushu

Tetsuro Sakuka is an expert in waste management and nature conservation.

He entered the City of Kitakyushu after graduating from Hiroshima University. Among his administrative careers, he has been involved extensively in various environmental measures of the City of Kitakyushu. He has also been dispatched to the Industrial Waste Management Office of the Ministry of Health and Welfare, and the Waste Management Division of the Ministry of the Environment and is also familiar with national policy making such as technical development support for waste disposal facilities.

Tetsuro Sakuka 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 solutions

Our daily lives, decision-making practices and business can fit within the earth’s carrying capacity. It pays to seize sustainable solutions right now, as they can help us stop overconsumption and biodiversity loss and mitigate climate change.

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