{"id":24180,"date":"2020-10-26T16:04:49","date_gmt":"2020-10-26T07:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/26\/japan-will-become-carbon-neutral-by-2050-pm-pledges"},"modified":"2020-10-26T16:04:49","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T07:04:49","slug":"japan-will-become-carbon-neutral-by-2050-pm-pledges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=24180","title":{"rendered":"Japan will become carbon neutral by 2050, PM pledges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yoshihide Suga says dealing with climate change is no longer a constraint on growth as he sets out a bolder approach to the emergency <\/p>\n<p>Japan\u2019s prime minister, Yoshihide Suga, has said the country will become carbon neutral by 2050, heralding a bolder approach to tackling the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/climate-change\">climate emergency<\/a> by the world\u2019s third-biggest economy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cResponding to climate change is no longer a constraint on economic growth,\u201d Suga said on Monday in his first policy address to parliament since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/14\/yoshihide-suga-the-farmers-son-set-to-be-japans-next-pm\">taking office<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/26\/japan-will-become-carbon-neutral-by-2050-pm-pledges\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yoshihide Suga says dealing with climate change is no longer a constraint on growth as he sets out a bolder approach to the emergency Japan\u2019s prime minister, Yoshihide Suga, has said the country will become carbon neutral by 2050, heralding a bolder ap&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[326,65,88,1678],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-change","category-environment","category-japan","category-yoshihide-suga"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24181,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24180\/revisions\/24181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}