Putra Adhiguna, managing director of the Energy Shift Institute, an energy finance think tank focused on Asia's green transition. He says Japan's plan to export carbon dioxide for storage abroad is seen by some as ethically dubious, implying that the exporting nation is shifting responsibility for its emissions to others rather than finding ways to reduce the harmful releases.
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Japan cannot make CO2 disappear just by exporting it. Plans for overseas storage must involve taking permanent responsibility.
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sakurasuki
That's always Japanese way of doing things, make it nice in homeland while exporting problem elsewhere. That method works for Japan's plastic waste, Japan just export those waste to Malaysia, Vietnam and China.
Bad Haircut
This is a false assumption that CO2 is the villain people like Adhiguna make it out to be. I wonder how much this person receives in taxpayer-funded subsidies to exaggerate the issue.
smithinjapan
Ouch! Truth hurts!
kibousha
Japan and the rest of the "pretending-to-do-good" western countries. The difference is that Japan doesn't care to be a "do-gooder" in climate change, only care about how it's perceived by "pretending-to-do-good" western countries.
fallaffel
Why would they need to export CO2? Wouldn't it defeat the whole purpose of reducing emissions if they ship it off somewhere? I can't imagine that this plan will ever be implemented.