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| We promote international technological cooperation for harmonious and sustainable industrial development in conjunction with environmental conservation. | |||||||||||
 For people living in the 21st century, solving global environmental problems and poverty in developing countries has become a matter of great weight and urgency. The development of industry has been initiated and this facilitates an important and legitimate method for solving the poverty confronted by developing countries. Past history, however, tells us, that in some cases the facilitation of industrial development may involve significant impacts on the local environment, or even on the global environment, and furthermore it requires an enormous amount of time and cost to recover from the damage sustained by such impacts. The Kitakyushu International Techno-cooperative Association, KITA, hopes that the cycle of “ Industrial Development− Environmental Devastation−Environmental Recovery” triggered by Economic Growth Priority Policy, which was once also followed in Japan, will never be repeated on this planet again. To realize this hope, KITA will make efforts to transfer to developing countries significant expertise, such as cleaner production technologies and environmental administrative policies, accumulated in the course of our own past development cycle and subsequent problem-solving. These transfers take a form appropriately suited to each unique situation through human resource training support and specialist dispatch. “Sustainable development” and “co-existence of the environment and development” are now globally shared goals, and it is indispensable for us to build a society with an environmentally sound resource cycle through which the economy and the environment can exist in harmony with one another. KITA will energetically and comprehensively promote international technological cooperation based on industrial development which works in harmony with global environmental conservation. |
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