Japan: The Tokyo Cap and Trade System Tokyo, the capital of Japan and one of the world’s largest cities, emits a total 59.6 million tons of greenhouse gas per year. Tokyo’s Cap-and-Trade has been implemented since April in 2010 as Japan’s first cap-and-trade emissions trading program. The Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly approved the bill that introduced...
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Japan Energy Production Trends
How The Energy System Is Structured The key points of the current energy policy of the Japanese government are: to locate nuclear power on important base-load power sources, by introducing the government’s new regulations, which are stronger than before to increase the renewable energies to promote technological development like low-carbon emission power plants The basic...
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Japan Emission Reduction Challenges
Leading Emission Reduction Challenges: (a) Dependence on fossil fuels as energy sources; (b) Changing peoples’ behavior Current Greenhouse Gas Emission Levels Total emissions in FY2014 were 1365 Mt CO2 eq, a 3.0 % decrease compared to those of FY2013; and a 7.5 % increase compared to FY1990. Total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions increased 2.7%...
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Japan Ratification Status
The Paris Agreement, signed by the Government in New York in April, will be submitted to the Diet for its approval and ratification. Initially, the administration was planning to start the ratification process in 2017; however, influenced by the G7 Ise-Shima Summit, they currently aim to get the approval from the Diet by the end of this year. In...