Japan’s Suga sets 2050 deadline to be carbon neutral
Japan’s Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga has set a 2050 deadline for the world’s third-largest economy to become carbon neutral.
Japan Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga has set a 2050 deadline for the world’s third-largest economy to become carbon-neutral, significantly firming up the country’s climate change commitments.
“We will bring the total amount of greenhouse gas (emitted by Japan) to net zero by 2050, meaning carbon-neutral,” Mr Suga said in his first policy address to parliament since taking office. “I declare we will aim to realise a decarbonised society.”
Tokyo had previously aimed to achieve carbon neutrality only some time in the latter half of the century.
Japan, which is a signatory to the Paris Agreement, was the sixth-biggest contributor to global greenhouse emissions in 2017.
It has struggled to cut carbon emissions after shutting down nuclear reactors following the 2011 meltdown in Fukushima sparked by a devastating earthquake and tsunami.
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