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Japan’s environment ministry takes principled stand against coal

Published 11:00 on March 29, 2019  /  Last updated at 11:00 on March 29, 2019  / Stian Reklev /  Asia Pacific, Japan

Japan’s environment ministry in principle will no longer back the building of coal-fired power capacity in the country because doing so would be incompatible with the Paris Agreement, it said this week.
Japan’s environment ministry in principle will no longer back the building of coal-fired power capacity in the country because doing so would be incompatible with the Paris Agreement, it said this week.


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