In Tokyo, Japan, they adopted a resolution obliging developers to install renewable energy sources, including solar panels, on all large new buildings with an area of up to 2,000 square meters after April 2025.
Such an initiative will help reduce carbon emissions from households, reports CNN.
Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike noted that only 4% of the buildings in the city that can install solar panels currently have them.
Tokyo government aims to halve greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 compared to 2000 levels, and the country to achieve climate neutrality by 2050. However, Japan is the world's fifth largest carbon emitter. After the Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011, most of Japan's nuclear power plants were closed. The country relies heavily on burning coal.
A member of the Koike Tomin First no Kai regional party, Risako Narikiyo, emphasized that Japan cannot waste time, because in addition to the global climate crisis, it faced an energy crisis due to the Russian-Ukrainian war.
As EcoPolitic reported before, Japan plans to build the first sea floating solar power plant with a capacity of 88 kW in Tokyo Bay as part of the ESG Tokyo Bay project. It is planned to create a unique urban energy model that will eventually make the metropolis completely energy independent.
