Japan Vows Not To Build New Coal Plants

Japan has pledged not to start building any more unabated coal-fired power plants at home, adding to international efforts aimed at curbing the largest source of global emissions, Isabel Reynolds and Shoko Oda reported Bloomberg.

Japan will end new construction of domestic unabated coal power plants, while securing a stable energy supply. I Photo: Σ64

"In line with its pathway to net zero, Japan will end new construction of domestic unabated coal power plants, while securing a stable energy supply,” Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said Friday at the COP28 summit.

Decisions by other nations on the issue "should be addressed by each country in the course of the respective pathways to net zero, reflecting national circumstances,” he said, Japan Times also reported.

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