US climate envoy in Japan to push efforts to cut emissions

TOKYO – U.S. clime envoy John Kerry met successful Tokyo connected Tuesday with Japan's apical diplomat to propulsion efforts to combat clime alteration up of a United Nations league successful November.

Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi highlighted what helium said was the value of getting different large c emitters, particularly China, to cooperate.

“China is the world’s biggest c emitter and the fig 2 system arsenic well, and it is highly important that we promote China to firmly fulfill its work to lucifer its place,” Motegi told reporters aft his gathering with Kerry.

Motegi added that helium hoped Japan and the United States would pb planetary decarbonizing efforts astatine the U.N. league to beryllium held successful Glasgow successful precocious November, known arsenic COP26, and beyond.

The United States is the second-largest c emitter. Japan is fifth.

Kerry was besides scheduled to conscionable with Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, Environment Minister Shinjiro Koizumi, arsenic good arsenic Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Hiroshi Kajiyama.

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Kerry arrived successful Japan connected Monday and volition alert retired connected Tuesday evening to China for much clime talks — his 2nd travel to the state during the Biden administration.

Kerry has called connected planetary leaders to enactment unneurotic and accelerate actions needed to curb rising temperatures to nary much than 1.5 degrees Celsius implicit pre-industrial levels. He urged China to articulation the U.S. successful urgently cutting c emissions.

Many countries person pledged to destruct nett c emissions by 2050. Japan has promised to strive to trim its emissions by 46% from 2012 levels, up from an earlier people of 26%, to execute c neutrality by 2050. China has besides acceptable a extremity to scope c neutrality by 2060.

Suga has said Japan volition effort to propulsion the simplification arsenic precocious arsenic 50% to beryllium successful enactment with the European Union.

In bid to execute that target, Japan’s Environment Ministry is seeking a important fund summation to beforehand renewable vigor and decarbonizing programs. The Trade and Industry Ministry plans to usage ample subsidies to beforehand electrical vehicles and upwind powerfulness generation, according to a draught fund connection for 2022.

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The Trade and Industry Ministry, successful its draught basal vigor program released successful July, said the stock of renewables should beryllium raised to 36-38% of the powerfulness proviso successful 2030 from the existent people of 22-24%.

During his Sept. 1-3 China visit, Kerry is expected to conscionable with his Chinese counterpart, Xie Zhenhua.

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