Japan has become the latest country to provide further details on how it plans to deliver on the emission reduction commitments it made as part of last year 's COP21 Paris Agreement . The plan follows comments last week from Prime Minister Shinzo Abe , indicating the government was prepared to re - open some of the nuclear reactors closed in the wake of the Fukushima disaster , to help to curb the need for coal - fired power . Environment Minister Tamayo Marukawa yesterday told reporters the government would release the plan for public comment with view to it being approved by the government by Environment Minister Tamayo Marukawa told reporters on 15 March that the proposal sets an aim to cut emissions 26 % against 2013 levels by 2020 and an 80 % cut by 2050 , by expanding on a number of efficiency and investment programmes and expediting the manufacture of hydrogen fuel cells and renewable energy projects .
Japan has become the latest country to provide further details on how it plans to deliver on the emission reduction commitments it made as part of last year 's COP21 Paris Agreement . The plan follows comments last week from Prime Minister Shinzo Abe , indicating the government was prepared to re - open some of the nuclear reactors closed in the wake of the Fukushima disaster , to help to curb the need for coal - fired power . Environment Minister Tamayo Marukawa told reporters on 15 March that the proposal sets an aim to cut emissions 26 % against 2013 levels by 2020 and an 80 % cut by 2050 , by expanding on a number of efficiency and investment programmes and expediting the manufacture of hydrogen fuel cells and renewable energy projects .