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© Thomson Reuters 2020.Japan's climate change efforts hindered by biased business lobby: study
By Aaron Sheldrick TOKYO©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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PTownsend
The fossils running Japan's fossil economy are looking out for their own financial interests, as well as those of the globe's fossil powers.
I can't imagine any time soon we'll stop burning oil, gas and coal. But we need to greatly decrease our dependence on them. We first need to find ways to conserve more, while also finding better ways to use alternatives to burning and wasting so much oil, gas and coal.
And we need to stop wars for greater control of oil and gas. And their shipment. Unless we want to keep the same fossils running things. The fossils want wars for oil.
rainyday
Figures, whenever a government policy seems completely at odds with the public interest, its probably exists because Keidanren’s membership profits from it.
kurisupisu
Whenever control can be exerted for the benefit of the few then the majority is excluded.
This is the case in Japan in many spheres.
Living downwind of a power station is no joke...
Mickelicious
sakurasuki
This is just show another Japanese Industry that only interested for nothing to be changed in Japan. Realizing or not, that only will decrease competitiveness of domestic companies.
proxy
One corporate climate lobbying group complaining about another lobby group. InfluenceMap governance and staff do not look like a very diverse group.
Dee Jaybee
You may be the only one here who cannot recognize humor, my Lad.
Toasted Heretic
Sounds depressingly familiar.
Sometimes it feels like we really are a virus, attacking Gaia.
I hope that more and more young people take up the baton and their voices are heard over the corporate planet polluters and cynical folks who gave up the fight, or simply don't care.
rainyday
What does diversity have to do with their findings?
proxy
@rainyday
Everything, as their finding are viewed through a white lens. Is the "climate crisis" the new white man's burden in which they need to preach to the unenlightened? It is easy for them to criticize as they don't need to worry about all the workers relying on fossil fuels to put food on the table.
Dee Jaybee
Japan's business hindered by biased climate change study: lobby
The picture of the coal bucket filled with coal is a reality for many humans who want to keep warm as it was for me as a young farm boy bringing in buckets of coal from the coal shed. We would have frozen to death many winters. But that was before Strip-Mining. Now we're rich because of the coal found on our rural dirt farm. So now we must all Save the Planet I tell you! Don't you deny it!
Luddite
Is this a surprise to anyone.
rainyday
So in other words you didn’t read their report and find this talking point to be an easier way to respond?
Jandworld
As with the corona .... issue it is health vs economic.
And more than health even with this one.
Ichiro_WeatherForecaster
It’s a good for such a studies or news to be exposed for public. I wish it’s spreading more
It’s a similar case to that IT industry in Japan has been behind of other advanced counties like USA, Taiwan and South Korea. etc.
Something power (which is a few people with high social status) has hindered new attempts by holing on their old ideas
Jandworld
Backcasting to say no more coal mines neither in Kyushu nor Hokkaido.
Arrrgh-Type
Baffling that any wealthy country in the 21st century would want to increase coal usage. It’s no secret or mystery how awful it is the for environment.
Japan likes to sell itself as a technologically advanced country (would you like to hear more about some microscopically small hydrogen fuel cell program for the 100th time?), but then they turn around and make a 19th century energy policy. Can’t have it both ways, folks.
albaleo
It would be helpful to point out how many older style coal plants will close in the same period. I undersatnd it's far more than 20. (100 to be closed by 2030 is what I've read.)
dan
and albaleo? your point?
albaleo
The figures I asked for would indicate better how CO2 emissions will change in the coming years. The article appears to be critical of the building of new coal plants. But if no new coal plants were built, and current plants continued operating, the situation would be worse than now. I'd just like to see the complete picture before passing an opinion.