China must make more climate efforts for Tokyo and Washington

At a high-level meeting in Tokyo, Japan and the United States agreed to call on China to further contribute to global efforts to reduce carbon emissions, the Japanese foreign minister said, Tuesday.

The US special climate envoy, John Kerry, was in Japan on Tuesday to “strengthen bilateral and multilateral efforts,” in the words of the US State Department, ahead of COP26, to be held in November.

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“We discussed our cooperation on efforts to reduce emissions from major emitting countries, including China,” Japanese foreign minister Toshimitsu Motegi said at a press conference after the meeting. “China is the biggest emitter of CO2 on the planet, and it is also the second largest economy in the world,” added Toshimitsu Motegi. “It is important that we call on him to take responsibility for his status.”

John Kerry was later to meet the Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga before flying to Tianjin (northeast China), where he was to meet his Chinese counterpart. The COP26 climate conference, which is due to materialize the new enhanced commitments of countries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and finalize important pending issues of the 2015 Paris Agreement, is due to take place in November in Gasgow (Scotland).

Humans “unquestionably” responsible

Japan set itself a goal of carbon neutrality by 2050 last year – China is aiming for 2060 – and in early 2021 strengthened its 2030 target for reducing CO2 emissions to 46% compared to their levels. of 2013, against a previous target of 26% at the same timeframe. This new target is “a significant contribution to global efforts,” praised John Kerry. Third world economic power, Japan was in 2019 the fifth largest CO2 emitting country in the world, behind China, the United States, India and Russia, according to the online platform Global CO2 Atlas.

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UN climate experts (IPCC) published a chilling report at the beginning of August, according to which the planet should reach the threshold of + 1.5 ° C compared to the pre-industrial era “at the beginning of the 2030s”, ie “ten years earlier” than the previous estimate. Humans are “indisputably” responsible for climate change and have no choice but to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions if they want to limit the damage, experts said.

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