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EMISSIONS

Japan Times
BUSINESS
Oct 30, 2020
Japan wants to take the heat off data centers with the help of snow
The energy used to run the servers and keep them from overheating is considerable.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Oct 30, 2020
Japan net zero plan hits speed bump as small utilities balk
Hokkaido Electric Power Co. and Shikoku Electric Power Co. said this week they can't set deadlines to become emissions neutral because it's too costly.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 28, 2020
South Korea's Moon targets carbon neutrality by 2050
Coal makes up 40% of South Korea's electricity mix and renewable power less than 6%, making its carbon dioxide emissions per capita among the highest in the region.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Science & Health
Oct 28, 2020
Japan sees muddled messaging on nuclear’s role in carbon target
Top Liberal Democratic Party officials have contradicted each other over whether new reactors are needed.
Japan Times
JAPAN / ANALYSIS
Oct 26, 2020
Suga aims for greener Japan with carbon pledge, but details lacking
Some fear the prime minister's plan to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050 may lack the mechanisms and vision to actually deliver decarbonization.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 21, 2020
Japan’s oldest mill turns to cleaner steel to take on China
Japan’s oldest steel mill is venturing into recycling the industrial metal to tackle climate change and survive a race with Chinese mills.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 21, 2020
Singapore’s new city of the future is its greenest project yet
The project is part of the city-state's effort to reduce a carbon footprint that's bigger than some countries that are 50 times its size.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 13, 2020
Power firm JERA to shut inefficient coal-fired plants by 2030
The firm also said it aims to achieve net zero emissions of carbon dioxide by 2050.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Oct 13, 2020
Investors urge heavy carbon emitters to set science-based reduction targets
The effort by 137 investors reflects concern that climate change may put their investments at risk, as well as causing damage to the world economy.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Oct 8, 2020
Climate change-hit nations say survival hangs on tougher 2020 action
The world is set for warming of close to 3 degrees Celsius over preindustrial times even if emissions-cutting pledges made so far are delivered.
Japan Times
WORLD
Oct 6, 2020
Political 'retreat' on Paris pact harms all nations, U.N. climate chief says
Rich nations are failing on promises to help poorer ones meet the goals of the Paris agreement on climate change, even though such help would be "not charity but a global act of self-interest," U.N. climate chief Patricia Espinosa said on Monday.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Sep 29, 2020
China’s top climate scientists unveil road map to 2060 goal
One of China's climate research institutes on Sunday laid out a plan of increasing renewable and nuclear energy and completely phasing out coal power.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 28, 2020
Saudi Arabia sends blue ammonia green fuel to Japan in world first
Japan aims to be a world leader in the use of hydrogen, which is contained in ammonia, as an energy source.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Sep 24, 2020
California sets 2035 goal to ban sale of new gasoline-powered passenger vehicles
The move, the most significant yet by a U.S. state aimed at ending the use of fossil fuel-burning engines, was criticized by some carmakers including Toyota.
WORLD / Science & Health
Sep 20, 2020
Spinning clock in New York counts down time until climate devastation
Climate campaigners unveiled a huge countdown clock on Saturday, showing how little time is left before global temperatures hit a critical high, to kick off a week of climate action in New York.

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