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Background Japan has heavily relied on the use of fossilfuels for its power generation. According to the Japanese Agency for Natural Resources and Energy, the countrys fossilfuel dependency was 83.2% in 2021, which is 2% higher than the percentage before the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami in 2011.
above pre-industrial levels, the high ambition goal set by the ParisAgreement. “As Only 44 of the 1,030 companies on the list have announced a coal exit date, and only around 30 of them have declared dates that could be considered aligned with the ParisAgreement. Gas power should not be an option.
In the 1960s climate change was not really a significant concern, not even amongst environmentalists – this was despite the fact that the Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius in 1896 was the first to claim that emissions from fossilfuels might eventually result in enhanced global warming. When I was born in 1979 it had stood at 4.36
This official inner circle is now doing the business of the three separate international treaties in force for climate change: the 1992 Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC), the 1992 Kyoto Protocol (Yes, it still exists and is in force, although the United States is not a party), and the 2015 ParisAgreement.
Japan’s dependency on fossilfuel s had been slightly declining until 2010. But the country changed course as a result of the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami, which led to the forced shutdown of nuclear power plants and greater reliance on fossilfuels.
For instance, mortgages are connected to homes, while fossilfuel finance is tied to infrastructure like pipelines, oil wells, and the reserves still in the ground. Up to $4 trillion of fossilfuel assets are at risk of being stranded, with $100bn at risk in Canada by 2036. However, Canada is falling behind.
More recently, another study showed it had to be done in OECD nations to comply with the ParisAgreement targets. Ending fossilfuels subsidies and divesting away from coal will put the final nails in the coffin. Are thorium or fusion credible solutions ? Perhaps in 10 or 20 years but we need to act NOW !
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The Oregon Supreme Court agreed with a petitioner that the Attorney General should modify the text of a ballot title that, if adopted by voters, would amend an Oregon statute to require that greenhouse gas emissions from industry and fossilfuel sources be reduced by 100% below 1990 levels by 2050. Friends of the Santa Clara River v.
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