Japan Plans to Reduce Carbon Emissions to Zero

Japan Plans to Reduce Carbon Emissions to Zero Japan plans to reduce its carbon emissions to zero. Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga has set a zero carbon target in his country by 2050. Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga announced that Japan aims to neutralize carbon emissions by 2050. Suga spoke at the first policy meeting in parliament since taking office as Prime Minister. “Responding to climate change is no longer an obstacle to economic growth,” Suga said. We must change our thoughts that the measures to be taken against climate change will cause changes in the industrial structure and reduce the growth in the economy." Japan was under pressure to strengthen its climate targets after it was announced that they aimed to reduce carbon emissions by 80 percent by 2050. Following this, he stated that they aimed to neutralize carbon emissions as quickly as possible in the second half of this century. With this statement, Japan set the same target as the European Union, while China announced that it aims to neutralize carbon emissions by 2060. On the other hand, concerns about how Japan can achieve this goal remain due to the country's dependence on fossil fuels and coal and the rising anti-nuclear energy following the explosion of the Fukushima reactor. In Japan's current energy plan prepared in 2018, there are statements noting that 22-24 percent of the country's energy is expected to be met from renewable energy, 20-22 percent from nuclear energy and 56 percent from fossil fuels.