A top Japanese official said the country is falling short of international expectations to tackle climate change because it’s not shifting away from fossil fuels fast enough.
Japan must accelerate investment in renewable energy to meet its 2050 carbon neutrality goal and assert global leadership in the energy transition, Kono Taro, a former administrative reform minister said in an interview with Bloomberg News Wednesday in Tokyo. Reluctance from the trade ministry to adopt more renewable energy puts Japan at risk of falling behind “everyone else on this planet,” he said earlier this month.
