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ifd66
This will see Japan falling even further behind other counties in the renewables sector. Short sighted, weak policies from the old guard leaders that are still pandering to the vested interests of the establised corporate elite (nuclear industry etc)
Guy_Jean_Dailleult
The key is the use of 2013 as the baseline after emissions already went up. And if they don't hit the renewable energy target of 22-24% the difference will likely be made up by even more coal burning, meaning even this fudged target of 26% won't be met.
Generally speaking, "pandering" is not the word applied when said "corporate elite" see their industry shut down indefinitely and then with a plan to reduce its use from 30% to 20% of the overall mix. That generally means somebody else is actually the "corporate elite" being pandered to.
warispeace
With the world already measuring above 400 ppm some months, when it's calculated no more than 350 ppm is required to keep average global temperatures from rising above the very destabilizing +2 degrees, a 26% cut by 2030 is laughable and reflects the immorality of the elite regime in Japan.
Moonraker
Compare to an ideal, not to some other place. The ideal was something like an 80% reduction 10 years ago and here we are being offered 25% in some 15 years in the future. Though we will soon hear the views of those who believe the Earth can be turned to bare rock with no consequences for humans and other such deniers, I am sure.
Kobekid2
Warming trend has stalled for the last 21 years!
Kobe White Bar Owner
This just goes to prove that 92.7238% of statistics are made up on the spot.
lucabrasi
@Kobe
It's 92.7237%
Someone's feeding you nonsense....
Kobe White Bar Owner
@ lucabrasi
How foolish of me, but i just watched NHK and it said its 92.7236. It was on the TV it must be right.
Brian Wheway
May be some one ought to tell China about the high amount of pollution that there factories belch out every day,
NathalieB
Uh-huh...... deja vu anyone?
Disillusioned
Is this like building the best Olympic stadium ever? The one that has just been thrown into the crapper? Bwahahaha!
Wolfpack
I have to admit that I am continually discouraged by Japan's weak attempts at cutting CO2 emissions. A paltry 26%! How about 126% instead? That would show a real commitment to the cause. It is disconcerting that Japan seems so concerned about their economy and keeping their citizens out of poverty. And all that spending they do on health care and education based on tax revenues from businesses and in large part from borrowing. Come on Japan, ante up!
@warispeace
This is a great realization on the part of the Warmists. Since we have already surpassed the amount of CO2 that they believe will destabilize the climate they should realize that it is a lost cause and turn their attention towards adaptation. Let the fact that the world is already doomed sink-in. Of course they can also Ignore the scientific fact that there has been no statistically significant warming in two decades. And the fact that the world has pumped as much CO2 into the atmosphere over the last 15 years than in the 100 prior to that with no statistically significant warming.
Get your mind out of the numbers and put some emotion and a socialist political ideology into it. It makes it a lot easier to see past reality that way.
WilliB
It is sad to see that the Japanese government has bought into this nonsense.
sf2k
2013 is a ridiculous baseline when it was originally 1990. It would clearly be much higher. Also how much of this is just demographics in 15 years? Too many times this can has been kicked down the road. Japan has a lot of opportunities for renewable energy that other countries do not have. Getting busy on that, now, today, would be more useful than pretending to do something