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Japanese offset plan announced

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
  • -
  • Japan
  • -
  • October 24 2011

Japan, the fifth-largest global greenhouse gas emitter, unveiled a plan October 21 to subsidize 14 companies considering foreign emissions offsets as an alternative to the United Nations’ carbon trading scheme

Long-term Japanese energy project recommended

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
  • -
  • Japan
  • -
  • August 21 2011

Japan’s Research and Development Study Committee of the ministry’s Industrial Structure Council recommended August 15 that the country create a long-term national energy project to reduce its dependence on fossil fuel and nuclear power

Japan replaces nukes

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
  • -
  • Japan
  • -
  • August 28 2011

The Japanese government announced August 22 that it will return to old oil and gas plants to replace its nuclear power plants

Japanese vehicle efficiency increased

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
  • -
  • Japan
  • -
  • October 30 2011

Japan’s Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport finalized targets October 20 to increase average passenger car fuel economy to 47.7 miles per gallon by 2020, an increase of 24.1 percent from 2009 levels

Japan chooses nukes, RE

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
  • -
  • Japan
  • -
  • September 18 2011

Japan’s Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda said September 13 that a stable energy supply from advanced renewable energy and nuclear power is a top priority for the new administration

Japanese recycling

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
  • -
  • Japan
  • -
  • January 8 2012

Japan’s Ministry of the Environment issued a proposal December 27 that would promote recycling of 80 consumer and industrial electrical and electronic products as a way to reduce illegal waste exports and recover precious metals contained in the used products

103 Japanese reforms spur RE

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
  • -
  • Japan
  • -
  • April 8 2012

Japan’s Working Group on Regulatory and Administrative Reforms recently recommended 103 regulations to be relaxed or abolished to encourage renewable energy development in the country following the reduction in nuclear power since last spring’s nuclear crisis

Japanese nuclear

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
  • -
  • Japan
  • -
  • April 1 2012

Tokyo Electric Power notified Japan’s trade ministry March 30 that it was dropping plans for two more nuclear reactors at its Fukushima Daiichi plant

Japan pursues renewables

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
  • -
  • Japan
  • -
  • September 8 2011

Japan’s Study Subcommittee on Politics and Measures After 2012, which operates under the Ministry of the Environment’s Central Environmental Council, met August 30 to consider whether the country can meet its emissions reduction targets after the Fukushima nuclear crisis

WTO rules public can view Japanese-Canadian dispute hearing

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
  • -
  • Canada, Global, Japan
  • -
  • January 22 2012

On January 18, the World Trade Organization said the public can listen in on dispute panel proceedings between Japan and Canada over whether the domestic content requirements under Ontario's Feed-In Tariff (FIT) program violate WTO rules by requiring that wind and solar projects include a minimum amount of Ontario originated goods and services