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 government said in a statement that its new plan would be "based on an integrated approach and will include measures for reducing emissions from all sectors including transport, agriculture, forestry and waste management". Environment Minister Tamayo Marukawa told reporters on 15 March that the proposal sets an objective to cut emissions 26% against 2013 levels by 2030 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 objective to cut emissions 26% against 2013 levels by 2030 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.