A fisherman in front of a factory in Kawasaki (Japan), March 28, 2016. Yuya Shino / Reuters Japan committed, Tuesday, February 18, to reduce his greenhouse gas emissions by 60 % by 2035 compared to At 2013, as part of its climate ambition plan which will be accompanied by a revision of its energy strategy. The fourth world economy, still very dependent on hydrocarbons and accused of having the most polluting energy mix of the G7 powers, has already set itself the objective of reaching carbon neutrality by 2050. The commitment revealed Tuesday is part of the new “contribution determined at the national level” (NDC) that Tokyo, like all the signatory countries of the Paris climate agreement of 2015, was to deposit at the UN at the latest on February 10. Of the almost 200 countries concerned, only ten have done so in time, according to the United Nations. The target must be reached during the Japanese 2035 fiscal year, which will end at the end of March 2036. The archipelago also aims to reduce its 73 % emissions by 2040, still compared to 2013, said the Japanese Ministry of the Environment. Read also | Article reserved for our global warming subscribers: the heat will kill much more than the cold by the end of the century read later “these ambitious objectives are aligned with the world objective” provided for by the Paris Agreement aimed at limiting Planetary warming at less than 1.5 ° C compared to the pre-industrial era, and is part of the “carbon neutrality”, insisted the ministry. In its previous national contribution subject to the UN, in March 2020, Japan undertook to reduce its emissions by only 26 % by 2030, arousing strong criticism from NGOs and climate experts. In the process, a more ambitious plan, unveiled in October 2021, set a target of reduction of 46 % by 2030 compared to 2013. Project in favor of renewable energies The new objective “is a great failed opportunity to show the world Japan leadership in the fight against climate change, ”reacted to the France-Presse Masayoshi Iyoda agency, head for Japan of the environmental NGO 350.org. “Scientists warned that Japan had to reduce its emissions by 81 % by 2035 to align with the objective of 1.5 ° C (…) Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba died at the pressure of the industrial world To the interests of fossil fuels “, he was sorry, denouncing” a major failure (…) for a transition to a fair and fair renewable energy “. The challenges are major for Japan. In 2023, almost 70 % of its electricity needs were covered by thermal power plants operating with coal and hydrocarbons. Anxious to remedy this, the government of Shigeru Ishiba had announced in mid-December a preliminary project to make renewable energies the first source of electricity in the country by 2040 while boosting the use of nuclear. Especially since Tokyo relies on an increase of 10 to 20 % of the country’s electricity production by 2040, in comparison with 2023, faced with growing demand in particular with artificial intelligence and the production of semiconductors. Read also | Article reserved for our subscribers “Faced with the acceleration of the rise of the seas, the priority is to adapt, or even to withdraw large areas of the coast” Read this “Energy Strategic Plan” later was refined and detailed on Tuesday . By 2040, according to the objectives adopted, thermal power plants will only have to represent between 30 and 40 % of the Japanese electric mix. Conversely, the share of renewables in electricity production will be inflated to reach between 40 and 50 %, against only 23 %in 2023. The objective previously set was 38 %. The share of solar in the electric mix should rise to 23-29 %by 2040, that of the wind at 4-8 %, and that of the hydroelectric at 8-10 %, according to the detailed forks. In addition, nuclear should have for 20 % of electricity production by 2040, more or less the objective already set for 2030 – but below the 30 % that the civil atom represented before 2011. Fourteen years after the disaster From Fukushima, Japan wants to play nuclear energy a major role in meeting increasing energy needs. The government had closed all the archipelago nuclear power plants after this triple disaster (earthquake, tsunami, nuclear accident). But he gradually put them back into service, despite shielding, as part of his carbon emissions reduction policy. It provides that all of its existing reactors are in service by 2040, and possibly new reactors. The world with AFP reuse this content
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