Japan Urged to Boost Green Power to Achieve Paris Climate Goals
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To do its part to help avoid catastrophic climate change, Japan must significantly change its power mix between now and 2030, according to a report by the Asia Investor Group on Climate Change.
The country must lift the proportion of renewable energy in its generation to 50%, and nuclear to 20%, by 2030 to meet Paris Agreement goals of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit), the group said in a policy statement released Monday. Japan must also halt the use of coal and gas for power generation between 2035 and 2040, it said.