At its own climate change summit, US President Joe Biden announced a new goal to halve his greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 and called on countries to take further action.
On the other hand, expressed the idea of Xi Jinping Jintao of China is also going to reduce the consumption of coal, the two countries medium rice to deepen the conflict, showed the attitude to cooperate in climate change measures.
The Climate Change Summit hosted by President Biden began on the night of the 22nd of Japan time for two days.
President Biden, who spoke at the opening, stated a new goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in his country by 50% to 52% compared to 2005 by 2030. "This crisis is one country in every country. We must act promptly to address this challenge, "he said, calling on countries to take further action.
After that, in the first session attended by the leaders of 26 countries and regions in addition to the United States, Prime Minister Suga announced that he would aim to reduce the reduction target for 2030 by 46% compared to 2013. did.
In addition, Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has also announced a new target to reduce 40% to 45% compared to 2005 by 2030, and two of the seven major G7 countries have significantly reduced their own reduction targets. Announced a new increase.
Furthermore, the world's largest Chinese Xi Jinping Jintao is emitting countries of the greenhouse gas, along with stating that "I want to continue to promote the management of the global environment in cooperation with the international community, including the United States", to limit the coal-fired power generation, It has announced that it will gradually reduce coal consumption by 2030.
Although the United States and China are deepening conflicts over human rights and security issues, they have shown to the international community that they will work together on climate change countermeasures, which both the United States and China place importance on.
Countermeasures and challenges for China's climate change problem
China, the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases, emphasizes its commitment to tackle climate change issues nationwide.
In Xi Jinping Jintao United Nations General Assembly last September, for the emissions of carbon dioxide it was stated that "reached a peak in 2030, to strive to achieve a virtually zero until 2060".
After that, in December of last year, we also set a reduction target of GDP = carbon dioxide emissions per gross domestic product, which is to be reduced by 65% or more compared to 2005 by 2030.
It has been pointed out that China's major challenge in reducing greenhouse gases is the dependence of electricity on coal-fired power generation, and although its share of total power generation is gradually declining, it was still last year. Coal-fired power generation accounts for 60% of the total.
For this reason, the Chinese government is increasing the amount of electricity generated by renewable energy, and the amount of electricity generated by wind power and solar power last year was about 10% of the total, which is nearly 10 times that of 10 years ago.
Regarding nuclear power generation, new construction has stagnated since the accident at TEPCO's Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, but at the National People's Congress held last month, it was stated that "proactively develop nuclear power generation". The policy has been announced, and it is expected that expansion will be promoted in the future.
However, with regard to the goal set by President Xi to reduce carbon dioxide emissions to virtually zero by 2060, he is more ambitious for further technological innovations such as next-generation energy development utilizing hydrogen and improvement of electricity storage technology. It has been pointed out that it will be difficult to realize without taking various measures.
In addition, the Chinese government has not clearly shown the path to achieving the goal, and the future focus will be on how far the action plan to be formulated by 2030 will take.
Speech by Defense Minister Kishi
Minister of Defense Kishi made a speech at the "Climate Security Session" of the Climate Change Summit.
In this, Minister Kishi said, "Rising sea levels due to climate change may reduce land, intensify conflicts over territories and resources, destabilize the entire region, and affect Japan's security. There is. "
On top of that, we will work to stabilize the region through support for Southeast Asian countries and Pacific island countries, and since climate change is not an issue that can be solved by only one country, we will do our best to take measures in cooperation with countries around the world. Shown.
A series of troubles in delivery
At this climate change summit, the US government distributed video and audio to the world, but various troubles such as being unable to hear the audio occurred one after another.
At the beginning, the speeches of President Biden and Vice President Harris were difficult to hear due to the double voice.
In the subsequent speeches by the leaders of each country, a video of President Joko Widodo of Indonesia was mistakenly shown at the beginning of the pre-recorded speech by President Emmanuel Macron of France, and the video suddenly appeared in the middle of the speech. , Switched to Russian President Emmanuel Macron, who was waiting for his turn.
Then, the appearance of President Putin confirming with others whether it was his turn and the appearance of staff rushing to the US Secretary of State Blinken, who was the facilitator of the meeting, were distributed to the world.
President Macron's speech, which was discontinued in the middle, was re-delivered after President Putin's speech.
In addition, Australia's Prime Minister Morrison's speech was followed by a series of confusions and technical problems, such as the inaudibility for about a minute at the beginning.
Demonstration around the White House The goal is "too small and too late"
In Washington, the capital of the United States, which hosted the Climate Change Summit, a demonstration was held on the 22nd at the behest of an environmental protection group, calling for further efforts to reduce greenhouse gases.
People gathered around the White House marched with banners stating, "Declare an environmental crisis now," and said, "The goal of halving by 2030 is too small and too late." He argued that the Biden administration's new greenhouse gas emission reduction targets were inadequate.
Demonstrators showed their intention to protest by throwing the soil carried by the wheelbarrow onto the road.
Members of the group that hosted the demonstration said, "President Biden must act for our future. It will be late in 2030 and low at 50%. Achieve zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2025. I need to. "