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CLIMATE CHANGE

Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 10, 2021
There’s an $80 billion hole in India’s climate pledge
As long as free electricity for pumping groundwater remains a popular ploy to garner farmers' votes, politicians won't want to lose control of the power sector.
Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 10, 2021
Climate change risks 'runaway' humanitarian crisis and aid system collapse, U.N. warns 
Aid workers are struggling to keep up with the rising number of disasters in poor communities, calling for a boost in funds and more support for climate change adaptation.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Nov 10, 2021
Six automakers and 31 countries say they’ll phase out gasoline car sales
Toyota, Volkswagen and the Nissan-Renault alliance did not join the pledge, and the governments of Japan, the United States and China — three of the largest car markets — also abstained.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / FOCUS
Nov 10, 2021
India’s battle against heat shows stakes of COP26 climate talks
It will take decades for COP26 measures to have a tangible impact on temperatures. In the meantime, countries like India have to learn to deal with heat that's already baked in.
Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 10, 2021
COP26 has 'mountain to climb' to curb warming as talks intensify
A research group said the national pledges submitted so far would allow the Earth's temperature to rise 2.4 degrees Celsius from pre-industrial levels by 2100.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Nov 9, 2021
Investors pushed mining giants to quit coal. Now it’s backfiring.
Mines that were scheduled to be closed have instead been transformed into the engine room for growth-hungry coal businesses.
Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 9, 2021
Obama tells COP26 to help poor nations as he chides China and Russia
The failure of rich nations to help developing countries has fueled mistrust, which creates a major obstacle to progress in cutting emissions.
Japan Times
JAPAN / FOCUS
Nov 9, 2021
Japan, once a leader on climate, under fire at COP26 over coal use
The country's refusal to sign a pact to phase out the fuel was short-sighted, critics have said.
Japan Times
WORLD / ANALYSIS
Nov 9, 2021
Dead or alive? COP26 climate talks strive to save 1.5 C warming goal.
Some nations, especially island states at risk of being swamped by rising seas, say reaching 1.5 C — in any year — would be the death knell of the iconic goal.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 8, 2021
What's behind the greening of the Kremlin?
President Vladimir Putin recently announced Russia aims to become carbon neutral by 2060 — 10 years after the United States and the European Union but at the same time as China.
Japan Times
WORLD / FOCUS
Nov 8, 2021
Protesters expose the stark reality of climate progress at COP26
The message from the thousands carrying placards around the venue of the meeting is one most insiders would agree with: The progress is still not enough to avoid catastrophe.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 7, 2021
There’s an unseemly rush to power EV batteries
While lithium has been through a similar surge on the back of EVs before, this time there's a legitimate demand-supply issue with a shortage on the horizon.
Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 7, 2021
Nature and climate protection pledges pile up at COP26, amid ghosts of past failures
Agriculture, deforestation and other changes in land use account for about a quarter of humanity's planet-heating greenhouse gas emissions.
Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 7, 2021
Tired of COP26 promises, Glasgow protesters push climate justice from 'the outside'
Vulnerable people in countries that have contributed least to climate change bear the brunt of extreme weather and rising seas on a warming planet, speakers said.
Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 6, 2021
A father and son's ice age plot to slow Siberian thaw
Zimov wants to slow the thaw in one area of Yakutia by populating a nature reserve called the Pleistocene Park with large herbivores including bison, horses and camels.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Nov 6, 2021
China’s deafening silence speaks loudest at global climate talks
Some China climate watchers suggested that the nation's leaders are more concerned with implementing measures at home than winning praise at COP26.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 5, 2021
Climate change will kill national sovereignty as we know it
In a world where all countries collectively face the planetary emergency of global warming, sovereignty is simply no longer a tenable concept.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Nov 5, 2021
Pacific islanders struggle at COP26 as pandemic keeps leaders away
Officials left at home were trying to track complex negotiations in Glasgow in the middle of the night, often with unreliable internet connections.
Japan Times
WORLD / ANALYSIS
Nov 5, 2021
Poor nations 'squeezed' as debt surges and climate adaptation cash falls short
Developing nations alone will need up to $500 billion by 2050 for adaptation, the U.N. has said.
U.S. aircraft carrier returns to Japan carrying navy’s ‘most capable fighter’
U.S. 7th Fleet Commander Vice Adm. Fred Kacher speaks to reporters shortly after the arrival of aircraft carrier USS George Washington at Yokosuka naval base in Kanagawa Prefecture on Friday.
After Shohei Ohtani bump, Iwate ironware maker sees brighter future
Kaito Kikuchi's decision to send superstar Shohei Ohtani one of his company's traditional ironware tea kettles has paid off with a surge of interest from general consumers.
Japan approves ¥21.9 trillion stimulus plan
The policy chiefs of the Democratic Party for the People, Liberal Democratic Party and Komeito — Makoto Hamaguchi (left), Itsunori Onodera (center) and Mitsunari Okamoto — shake hands after reaching an agreement on an economic stimulus package on Wednesday.
Woman dies after train collides with car in Tochigi
A Moka Railway train car
Japan will spend ¥325 million in government funds on Princess Yuriko's funeral
Princess Yuriko waves during the New Year's public greeting at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo in January 2019.
Shohei Ohtani wins National League MVP award
Shohei Ohtani celebrates after hitting a three-run home run against the Padres during the National League Division Series at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles last month.
The slow-burn success of ‘A Samurai in Time’
A 19th-century warrior gets struck by lightning and wakes to find himself in 21st-century Kyoto in Junichi Yasuda’s surprise hit “A Samurai in Time.”
Around a quarter of Japan married couples in their 20s met through dating apps
A survey released by an organization promoting “Good Couples Day” shows that 24% of couples in their 20s met their marriage partner through a dating app.
'Tokyo Swindlers': Get deep into the minds of real estate con artists
In Ko Shinjo's "Tokyo Swindlers," a group of con artists manipulates real estate giants into falsified deals within the highly competitive, quick market.
Japan, U.K. and Italy discuss inviting more countries to joint fighter project
A new concept model of a next-generation fighter jet to be jointly developed by Japan, Britain and Italy is on display in Farnborough, Hampshire, in July.

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