Are environment impact assessments performed before a development project takes place to protect biodiversity?
All major development projects, ranging from highways to airports to residential tracts have faced mandatory environmental impact assessments since 1999. The assessments must be publicized, and, if deemed necessary, measures to mitigate environmental impact are enforced, including revising project plans. Local governments have similar regulations. The Nature Conservation Society of Japan says the current environment assessment criteria are not strict enough to ensure that planned development projects do not threaten biodiversity. The group also says the assessment process needs to start before the project planning phase instead of when the preliminary plan is drawn. How is the U.N. Convention on Biological Diversity expected to play out in 2010? The convention recognizes that biological diversity is not just about fauna, flora and ecosystems but also food security, freshwater and air, and a clean and healthy environment for all life forms. Japan signed the convention in 1993. Currently
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