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EMISSIONS

Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 28, 2023
Could a ‘greener’ World Bank be in the works?
The World Bank, the globe’s leading lender, should lead the fight against climate change.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 27, 2023
Carbon credits are a contested tool to fight deforestation
Major corporations are accused of purchasing carbon credits from forest protection projects in areas that are not actually at risk.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 25, 2023
African climate activists fight online surveillance
Online climate activism is on the rise in Africa — a continent that draws mining and oil companies to its rich mineral reserves. But so is surveillance.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 24, 2023
Mother Nature has the best climate-fixing technology
Earth has been cleaning its own atmosphere for eons. Investing to amplify those natural processes will bring faster results than inventing new machines.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 22, 2023
Clean-energy goals and technological optimism
Speeding up the adoption of already proven and scalable technologies and exposing the many hidden costs associated with fossil fuels is a necessary clean-energy goal.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 13, 2023
The climate pledges of leading global companies don’t add up
Regulations governing sustainability and sustainability claims remain underdeveloped and vary vastly from place to place.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Feb 11, 2023
Long-term air pollution exposure raises depression risk, studies find
Air pollution has long been linked to cardiovascular and respiratory diseases. The new studies add to a growing body of evidence that air pollution also affects mental health.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Feb 10, 2023
SMBC to end corporate finance for coal mining by 2040, but trade finance remains
Critics have previously pointed to the ambiguity on corporate financing, potentially providing a loophole for banks lending to pure-play coal miners.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 9, 2023
The world's largest carbon capture plant gets a second chance in Texas
Carbon capture is seen by some as a vital tool to limiting global warming because it enables the use of fossil fuels while removing their emissions.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Feb 9, 2023
Funds that inflate green credentials face strict new rules in Japan
Under the FSA’s new guidelines, only funds that consider environmental, social and governance as a 'key factor” when choosing investments can be marketed as such.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 9, 2023
A fifth of the world’s species-rich wetlands have been destroyed
Wetlands provide critical and historically under-recognized benefits to humanity, including flood defense, water storage and biodiversity protection.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 6, 2023
Adani’s crisis points to big risk in India's net-zero plan
Adani’s rapid downfall may undermine investor confidence in India more broadly, threatening to curb capital flows into the nation for green financing.
Japan Times
WORLD / FOCUS
Feb 5, 2023
Germany's Olaf Scholz is learning that it’s not easy going green
Under the leader's stewardship, German industry is struggling to find new technologies and trade partners to provide the backbone for the coming green transformation.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Feb 4, 2023
Concrete traps carbon dioxide soaked from air in climate-friendly test
The joint effort was the first time that carbon dioxide absorbed from the atmosphere using such Direct Air Capture (DAC) technology had been secured in concrete.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 3, 2023
Chubu Electric and BP to study carbon capture and storage project in Nagoya
Nagoya is Japan's biggest port in terms of cargo volume and is located near steel, automotive and other manufacturing plants that account for 3% of the country's total emissions.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 3, 2023
Nippon Paper and other firms eyeing sustainable aviation fuel made from wood
The project, if it succeeds, would aim to produce bioethanol from Nippon Paper's mills in the 2027 fiscal year to be used as a feedstock for sustainable aviation fuel.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 1, 2023
Saving the planet and picking fights in the process
The U.S. Inflation Reduction Act’s climate change provisions are a game changer for a cleaner environment but are also antagonizing America's allies.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 26, 2023
How threatening are threats and what are they doing to our psychological well-being?
News, social media alerts and scares are lighting up not only our smartphones, but also our brains, prompting some to ask how all the “threat talk” might be affecting us psychologically.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 25, 2023
The coming El Nino could be a glimpse of a grim future
A temporary spike in temperatures next year because of the El Nino weather pattern might motivate the world to curb carbon emissions.
Two of America’s biggest debt holders are dumping Treasurys
The U.S. Treasury building in Washington. Investors in Japan and China sold a pile of U.S. debt in the last quarter, just before the U.S. presidential election.
Ishiba aggravates his own political failures with diplomatic faux pas
Prime Minster Shigeru Ishiba is greeted at the APEC summit in Lima by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Friday. The Japanese leader was criticized for remaining seated while meeting several world leaders at the event.
Japan's 3.31 million visitors in October set monthly record
Kiyomizu Temple in Kyoto in December 2023. Famous autumn leaf colors contributed to increased tourism demand last month from many markets across Asia, Europe and North America, the Japan National Tourism Organization has said.
Japan ranks last in romance satisfaction for second straight year
In a survey of 31 countries, Japan ranked last in terms of those who felt loved, with just 51% of respondents saying so.
Ruling coalition and DPP strike last-minute deal over economic policy
DPP policy chief Makoto Mahaguchi speaks at the party's policy gathering in Tokyo on Wednesday.
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.
Haruki Murakami's 'The City and Its Uncertain Walls' gives deep deja vu
For “The City and Its Uncertain Walls,” translated into English by Philip Gabriel, Haruki Murakami confronts the ghosts who won't leave him alone.
Japanese expats in Asia find community through rugby
The Taiwan Fivewoods celebrate their victory at the 2023 Asian Japanese Rugby Cup in December of last year.
In Fukushima, a weekend of prose, poetry and translation
Aomori-based writer JJ Carter presented on tabletop gaming as creative inspiration for building characters and narratives.
For Dr. Nakamats, aging is just experience in action
Though he didn't win the recent gubernatorial election in Tokyo, the 96-year-old Dr. Nakamats' run was seen as inspirational in Japan's aging society.

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