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RENEWABLES

Japan Times
WORLD / FOCUS
Jul 31, 2020
A totally green electric grid will dramatically speed up climate action
Policy experts question the 15-year timetable for eliminating emissions from the U.S. electrical system, which would indeed be an immense challenge.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Jul 28, 2020
Japanese automakers eye e-fuel as alternative to EVs
Europe has been looking at carbon neutral e-fuel and plans to have it play a crucial role in many modes of transport, from planes and ships to large trucks.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Jul 23, 2020
Renewable power surpasses fossil fuels for first time in Europe
Renewable power for the first time contributed a bigger share in the European generation mix than fossil fuels as the fallout from the pandemic cut energy demand.
Japan Times
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Jul 10, 2020
Japan's coal closure plan a historic milestone, but what’s next?
The nation will still face pressure to further reduce reliance on the fossil fuel, both domestically and abroad.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jul 4, 2020
Beginning of the end for megadam projects in China as solar and wind power rise
It’s the beginning of the end for the era of megadam building in China.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jul 2, 2020
Energy innovation spending must triple by 2030 to hit climate goals
Aligning investments to create markets for new clean technologies can avoid locking in emissions that would delay the timeline for hitting crucial climate goals.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jun 30, 2020
Young blood may not be enough to curb Japan’s support for coal power
New language in a high-profile policy review shifting focus toward renewables is expected to be largely be symbolic, said sources familiar with the matter.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 23, 2020
Environmental shareholder activism comes to Japan as Mizuho faces climate resolution
If the resolution is passed, it could push Japanese banks to live up to recent commitments to end lending for the dirtiest fossil fuel.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 9, 2020
Tepco plans ¥2 trillion green power push by 2030
The spending plans are among the most ambitious from Japanese utilities, which lag global peers in shifting away from fossil fuels.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 5, 2020
Green Tasmania could help wean Australian cities off coal
Tasmania wants to turn itself into a battery.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 4, 2020
A 1,000-mile-long clean energy artery is completed in China
China completed construction of a 22.6 billion yuan ($3.17 billion) ultra-high voltage electricity line that for the first time will transport only clean energy.
Japan Times
WORLD
May 5, 2020
Nuclear power is getting hammered by green energy — and the pandemic
Generating power without harmful carbon emissions has never been more urgent, yet one of the biggest sources of clean power is struggling to turn a profit.
BUSINESS
Apr 14, 2020
Japan revises down emissions due to renewable use and nuclear restarts
Japan revised lower its latest greenhouse gas emissions figures, which it had already reported as the least since records began in 1990.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Apr 10, 2020
As Africa looks for clean power, interest in nuclear grows
Faced with power shortfalls, demands for greener energy and drought threats to hydropower, a growing range of African nations are considering a shift to an unexpected power source — nuclear energy.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Mar 27, 2020
Fossil-fuel giant Russia tiptoes toward low-carbon future
Fossil fuel-rich Russia has for the first time set out a greener economic path for the coming three decades, in a long-term, low-carbon development plan released this week.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Mar 13, 2020
Japan's post-3/11 and future energy landscape
Seeking to raise the share of renewable energy as close as possible to 100 percent could resolve many problems.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 9, 2020
Tohoku land-reutilization project breathes new life into 3/11 danger zones
Towns and cities in the three Tohoku prefectures damaged most by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami are moving forward with plans to reuse abandoned land plots under a group relocation program aimed at disaster prevention.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Feb 21, 2020
Japan, Germany and the war on rationality
Shutting down nuclear power plants makes no sense if it means burning more coal.
Japan to revise consumption tax exemption for overseas tourists
Tourists walk through Nakamise shopping street near Sensoji Temple in Tokyo in April
Japan's tourism industry hit by cancellations after megaquake alert
A beach closed due to a megaquake alert in Hiratsuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, from Friday to Thursday.
Focus shifts to incoming typhoon as Tropical Storm Maria dissipates
Newly formed Tropical Storm Ampil, which is forecast to approach eastern Japan this weekend, is seen on the left side of this satellite image.
Kishida to step down in September in bid to show ‘LDP has changed’
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida speaks during a news conference Wednesday at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo.
Publisher finds surprise audience after translating history textbooks
Yamakawa Shuppansha president Takeshi Nozawa holds the publisher's textbook on Japanese history — used in high schools across Japan — alongside the new English version in Tokyo on May 23.
Economic security is about strengthening and sustaining growth, former minister says
Former economic security minister Takayuki Kobayashi says changes in the international balance of power, along with deepening economic interdependence, have led some countries to attempt to use their economic power to impose their will on others.
Ice bandanas, convenience store breaks: Running under Japan’s summer sun
Blistering heat is becoming a fixture of summer in Japan, but a few tweaks to your routine can make your outdoor runs bearable — if not enjoyable — until cooler temperatures return.
Japan issued its first-ever megaquake alert. What does that mean?
Naoshi Hirata (center), chairman of a committee tasked with evaluating the risk of a Nankai Trough earthquake, speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Friday.
France brings down the curtain on its Olympic party with Tom Cruise and Leon Marchand
Fireworks are set off during the closing ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympics at Stade de France in Saint-Denis on Sunday.
Japan fuels U.S. LNG boom even as climate targets and impacts loom
Flaring at the Cameron LNG export terminal in Hackberry, Louisiana. Flaring, a common sight at LNG plants, is a controlled burning of gas for reasons ranging from depressurizing equipment to disposing of gas that can’t be used. The practice is a "waste of money" and negatively impacts climate change and human health, says the International Energy Agency.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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