Japan: from frontrunner to laggard
Authors
Louise Jeffery, Johannes Gütschow, Marion Vieweg, Michiel Schaeffer, Bill Hare, Marcia Rocha, Felix Fallasch
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Japan’s new 2020 target of a 3.8% cut in emissions at 2005 levels, announced overnight, will increase its own emissions and widen the global emissions gap by 3-4%, according to the Climate Action Tracker.