The new Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga has announced that his country wants to become climate neutral by 2050. He said that in his first speech in parliament after taking office in mid-September, reports the AP news agency. It is also unclear whether Suga has the necessary political support for his plans. He presented plans according to which his resource-poor nation is not only relying on renewable energies, but also on nuclear power – almost ten years after the catastrophic nuclear disaster in Fukushima. So far Japan wanted CO 2 emissions up to 2050 at 80 Lower percent.

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No farewell to nuclear power As AP writes, come from 40 Percentage of CO 2 emissions in Japan from energy companies that use primarily fossil fuels such as crude oil, natural gas and coal use. Farewell to the latter will make calls for an expansion of nuclear power louder, the news agency predicts. Suga has already announced this, but also promised a strengthening of renewable energies. He justified this with climate change, but also with the fact that the switch was no longer a burden, but an opportunity. Because it will lead to industrial and socio-economic reforms, as well as strong growth. Specifically, he announced that he would strengthen research on solar technology and CO 2 recycling.

Before Japan, the European Union had already announced that Europe would be up to 2050 for the first climate-neutral continent. Germany, for example, is explicitly not relying on nuclear power; the remaining nuclear power plants are gradually being switched off. This became the cross-party consensus after the catastrophic reactor accident in Fukushima, Japan in March 2011. Japan itself has drawn other conclusions from this and has restarted some nuclear reactors. The site of the accident is being cleaned up under the most difficult conditions and now even 1.2 million tons of the contaminated cooling water could be discharged from there into the ocean.

Six nuclear power plants are still in operation in Germany (7 pictures) Since March 696 C of the nuclear power plant in Gundremmingen, Bavaria, has been in operation . Block