Overview

• Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida pledges to lead efforts to achieve decarbonization, economic growth and energy security in Asia.
• Kishida announces the creation of a new organization to support AZEC countries in their effort to implement policies needed to achieve carbon neutrality.
• Japan offers to help other AZEC members with technologies to cut emissions, including co-firing technology using ammonia or hydrogen, as well as bendable and more mobile solar panels.
• Japan has achieved a 20% emissions reduction and is on course to meet the targeted 46% by 2030.
• Kishida promises that Japan will end new construction of unabated coal fired power plants and issue the world’s first government transition bond with international certification.