Japan

Green campaigners push climate message in Cornwall, as G7 leaders consider fossil fuel car phase out and climate finance commitments

Biden administration confirms new national climate action will commit US to cutting emissions by 50 to 52 per cent against 2005 levels by 2030

All the top green business news from around the world this week including China's ETS, Japan's fossil fuel car ban, and Enel's African green power push

Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga uses first address since taking office last month to vow cut in Japan's greenhouse gases to net zero by 2050

Nikkei news agency reports that major speech expected next week that will see Japan match the EU in formally setting an economy-wide net zero target

Smart energy storage software specialist claims it now manages more than 20,000 residential batteries in Japan

Japan becomes first major economy to submit updated national climate action plan to UN, but campaigners are left outraged by 'shameful' lack of ambition

A new paper from the International Council on Clean Transportation has found that short-term emission reduction measures proposed by Japan are unlikely to materially reduce greenhouse gas emissions

Coal continues its decline as renewables take hold in Germany, Spain, USA and even Fukushima, plus all the green business news you may have missed this week