Japan's objectives to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, a smokescreen?

Reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 60% by 2035 compared to the 2013 results: this is the objective that the Japanese Ministries of the Economy and the Environment unveiled on November 25 , reports the country's economic daily Nihon Keizai Shimbun. They also plan to reduce emissions by 73% by 2040, still compared to 2013.

The publication of these figures is linked to the Paris agreement, under which signatory countries are required to present to the UN, by February 2025, their objectives in the fight against climate change. In 2021, the Japanese government set itself the goal of achieving carbon neutrality in 2050, choosing to reduce the country's emissions by 46% compared to 2013 until 2030.

And he affirms that these objectives are on track: the country's carbon footprint having decreased by 22% between 2013 and 2022, “the new objectives [pour 2035 et 2040] are in line with the pace of the current reduction […] The government considers that things are going as planned,” details the newspaper.

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