Japan cut 26% of greenhouse gas emissions by 2030

Towards the end of the COP21 Global Climate Change Summit, many countries have planned and sent reports on greenhouse gas reductions.

Japan cut 26% of greenhouse gas emissions

On Friday (July 17, 2015), the Japanese Government released a figure to cut greenhouse gas emissions: by 2030 only 26 percent compared to 2013. Japan will submit this plan to Lien. The United Nations as part of its contribution to the Global Summit on Climate Change in Paris this November 2015.

The meeting at the office of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe discussed anti-global warming.(Photo: Source www.scmp.com.)

The target is based on the Japanese government's electricity generation plan by 2030 that the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) has just completed on Thursday (July 16, 2015). This plan is somewhat mitigated by the contribution of nuclear power to renewable energy since the disaster of the Fukushima nuclear power plant in 2011.

Taking 2013 as a starting point, Japan's 26 percent cut figure by 2030 will be higher than the 18-21 percent cut by the United States by 2025 and 24 percent cut by the European Union. Europe in 2030.

Closing some coal power plants in the Japanese plan reduced 26% of CO2.(Photo: Source article.wn.com)

Green activists and other countries are calling for even greater reductions that Japan will be blamed by the global community for not only low-setting goals but also plans to build more homes. coal burning machine. But Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Technology on Thursday said the government will plan to include the contribution of nuclear energy components by 20 to 22 percent of Japan's total electricity by 2030. , compared with 30 percent before the Fukushima incident. The target for renewable energy is about 22-24 percent, liquefied natural gas is about 27 percent and coal is about 26 percent.

Japan pioneered the construction of a solar power plant on the water.(Photo: Source techxplore.com)

The Federation of Electric Companies, whose members include 10 major energy monopolies, and 25 other companies, said on Friday that they have voluntarily set a target to curb CO2 emissions. for 2030 compared to 2013 about 35 percent or about 0.37 kg per 1 kilowatt of electricity.

They added that, by building fossil fuel-burning plants with the best use of technology, power companies show a potential to reduce CO2 emissions by as much as 11 million tons per year.

Sendai nuclear power plant is about to restart.(Photo: Source www.japantimes.co.jp)

The upcoming Paris summit aims to complete a legally binding agreement, a great effort to limit global average temperatures to 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degree F) above the level of pre-industrial era.