Category: Japan News Brief and Action Alert

Regions/Provinces/States Kyoto Prefecture—Kyoto Prefecture is where the Kyoto Protocol climate treaty was developed at The 3rd Session of the Conference of the Parties (COP3), serving as an effective means to promote global warming countermeasures. The treaty introduced trade emission allowances among advanced nations and emissions trading between advanced countries and developing countries. In October 2011,...

Government Official Koichi Yamamoto Minister of the Environment Mr Yamamoto’s Ministry is responsible for Japan’s environmental policies, including setting its emission targets. Contact: https://www.env.go.jp/en/moemail/ Government Official Hiroshige Seko Minister of Economy Trade and Industry Mr Skeo’s Ministry plays a key role in setting economic policy in Japan and plays a role in setting energy policy....

Research Study: Long-term Energy Supply and Demand Outlook, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (2015) Japan’s Ministry of Trade and Industry (METI) developed the Long-Term Energy Supply and demand Outlook in response to its research on consumer attitudes towards energy issues. Such research revealed widespread opposition to the continued use of nuclear power as Japan’s...

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...

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...

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%...

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...