Japan to cut 60% of emissions by FY2035, but experts call for more

The targets are basically unattainable but the ubiquitous Japanese habit of idling engines whilst sleeping could do with legislation.

Achieving more emissions reduction means installing more solar panels by destroying forests and paddy fields. It also means building more bird-killing wind turbines and nuclear power plants in the earthquake-prone country. Is it worth it? Trump says the U.S. will leave the Paris Agreement when he becomes president.

who are these "some experts"?

names,details,lets have a look who they are.follow the money.

Yearly pollution floats over from China.

Japan wants to overwork itself to manage the miniscule percentage of pollution it produces. Japan then wonders why we still have climate issues. Couldn't be China at all, right?

@Meiyouwenti - No need to destroy forests or farmland to install solar panels. It would be better to make use of parking lots (providing the additional benefit of shade in summer and protection from rain) and shopping mall and factory roofs. As for nuclear power, newer designs (such as SMRs) are much safer and, if you believe announcements from groups like Commonwealth Fusion Systems, commercially viable nuclear fusion (the real game changer) is just around the corner. My concern is Japan crippling herself like Germany by focusing on CO2 at the cost of all else.

Dobre...I think the world has moved past climate change denial.

Follow the money to see who is behind the denial.

Lots of scholarly books on the subject.

Nuclear or bust!

That would be economic suicide for starters. Solar power around now is less than half a day operable, and at outputs far lower than summer. Wind is on when it blows, and off when it doesn't. Intermittent. Can't run factories and offices that way, let alone heat or cool homes, run appliances, charge your Leaf or Tesla.

Which experts? the ones whose jobs depend on pursuing this nonsense to its disastrous conclusion?

Nuclear fusion seems like the most promising way.

More.... more..... more... MORE!!!... sound a bit villanous.

That surely will end very bad, but hopefully only for the few self-announced experts, not for Japan.

We got contacted by our power company Chubu Electric about fitting solar panels on a no-money-upfront lease basis. I know various private companies have such schemes, but this was the first time we heard about our actual provider, one of Japan's largest regional power companies, doing it. I've had many discussions with solar installers in the past, but they have always ended with the words "you won't get a warranty on any of the system because you get snow". After confirming this wouldn't be the case, sending documentation including plans and elevations of our house, we set up a meeting, which was supposed to be last Saturday. On Friday, we got a call saying, "we don't actually do your area because you get snow"....

So if power companies are cold calling people in areas that can't get solar panels about fitting solar panels, I assume somebody's sales or installation target must have been raised.

Japan to cut 60% of emissions

Nothing wrong with the idea if they can do that in a sensible way, but if they are thinking of running their country with windmills, solar panels and EVs, then this is another faceplant moment.