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So Japan really deserve fossil award.

https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2022/11/7db061181f7d-japan-given-infamous-fossil-award-at-climate-change-conference.html

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Australia could benefit from a stable Oil/Gas/Coal relationship with Japan, instead of China...

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how carbon print and global warming?

s i l e n c e ???

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Japan still uses coal? Australia supplies coal? What on earth is the point of a summit on climate change.

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This doesn't mean Japan will get a price discount. In fact, it's likely that Australia will overcharge Japan.

With the weak Yen, it's unlikely that Japan will be a long-term, profitable client of Australia.

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So Japan really deserve fossil award.

Thanks for the award. I prefer to keep warm in winter. How about you? How do you keep warm in the winter? Burn wood, the way, the west is doing?

Europeans Are Burning Trees to Keep Warm

Sky-high energy prices have people turning to wood to provide a cheaper alternative—and EU laws are helping incentivize this.

https://www.wired.com/story/eu-forests-energy-crisis/

Talk about the Stone age.

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Coal and gas as a short term stopgap to buy time to build alternative sources of energy is a pragmatic if far from optimal option but in Japan’s case the short term wil morph in to long term and no action will be taken to build the alternatives.

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REDWhiteBlue

Talk about the Stone Age

As coal is a stone, that truly is the Stone Age! Wood is a renewable resource so actually less intrinsically damaging to the environment. Wood burning stoves have been popular for a long while, well before the current crisis, the only down side to wood is its much lower energy density and in urban environments the particulates it produces,.

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With the weak Yen, it's unlikely that Japan will be a long-term, profitable client of Australia.

the markets dictate the price Japan pays not Australia, what Australia does dictate is the amount of gas its supplies, no different to what OPEC does with oil.

No I doubt Australia is trying to restrict supplies as that just drives prices higher and makes domestic gas more expensive

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there is coal and gas around the corner but Japan will prefer buy on from another part of the world.

non sense at all.

no one worry about pollution caused by vessels all the way from Australia to Japan when these will transport coal and gas.

Greta seems to be "offline" now.No global warming worry at all.

Just to be "in line" as loyal US poodle.

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JTCToday 08:54 am JST

Australia could benefit from a stable Oil/Gas/Coal relationship with Japan, instead of China...

Australia has both. Although China sometimes holds off unloading coal until it creates an emergency shortage then unloads them lickety split.

Alan HarrisonToday 09:16 am JST

Japan still uses coal? Australia supplies coal? What on earth is the point of a summit on climate change.

Australia was the worlds largest coal exporter as well as the largest gas exporter in 2021.

Australia exports 35.7% of the worlds coal.

Large customers being Japan, China, India to name only three.

This remains a source of embarrassment and concern for climate conscious Australians.

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Europeans Are Burning Trees to Keep Warm

Europeans have always burned wood to keep warm.

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EastmanToday 11:18 am JST

there is coal and gas around the corner but Japan will prefer buy on from another part of the world.

Japan wants a reliable supplier that is not involved in criminal invasions and who is refusing to return stolen Japanese islands. Australian coal is far superior to Russian coal and Japan is set up to import LNG which Russia does not produce in any quantity.

non sense at all.

Dealing with Russia makes no sense. Doing so would support its invasion and sensible moral nations will look elsewhere where ever possible. Russia made its bed and must now lay in it.

no one worry about pollution caused by vessels all the way from Australia to Japan when these will transport coal and gas.

The amount of sea traffic around the globe is substantial, but getting supplies from Russia would also come by sea. And as already pointed out, Australian supplies are superior and do not require doing business with a rogue terrorist nation.

What is surprising is people still suggesting increasing trade with a pariah state trying to end the sovereignty of a peaceful nation. Quite backwards thinking and illogical.

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Why start a campaign for solar panels on roofs in Japan when Australia is ansolutely willing to sell vast quantities of LNG?

Go Japan!

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