Failed in Completing Project

The Government of Japan failed in submitting emission target of greenhouse gasses to United States by the end of March, the time limit set by United Nations. While other nations have been considering realistic targets for getting rid of global warming, Japan cannot determine what it should do for reducing its own carbon emission. Being positive in contributing to international security, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe looks like not willing to contribute to international effort for environmental conservation.

Most developed countries have already submitted emission targets of their own. United States, which occupied 16% of all greenhouse emission in the world, caught up the deadline with a plan of reducing the gasses by 26% to 28% until 2025 in comparison with 2005. The world’s greatest emitter, China, is going to submit its own target, which will be peaking out its emission around 2030. European Union set a target of 40% reduction compared with the level in 1990 by 2030 at latest. It was Japan and Canada that failed determining the target in the countries of developed Group Seven.

Ministry of Environment of Japan regrets failure in the homework. “It is regrettable for Japan not to have submit it,” told Minister of Environment, Yoshio Mochizuki, “and we will determine it as soon as possible to contribute to international negotiation.” Although the government of Japan has decided to reduce the gasses by 3.8% until 2020 compared with the level in 2005, the target is too insufficient for Japan to convince the world of Japan’s seriousness on this issue. Officials of the Ministry of Environment realized that Japan needed to raise a target with reduction percentage in higher half of twenties.

The biggest obstruction for the target setting is hesitation of abandoning nuclear power. Abe administration is discussing preserving twenty percent of nuclear power in entire energy resource in 2030, because they thought increasing thermal power with coal, hydroelectric and geothermal would be unlikely. They always shift their eyes from increasing the renewable.

The failure indicated that Japan failed in finding alternative energy even five years after the fatal accident in First Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant. “We recognize that all peoples of the world have the right to live in peace, free from fear and want,” says the Constitution of Japan. Current government of Japan is also failing in implementing the target the Constitution sets.