Japan aims for 2050 deadline for carbon neutrality
By AFP
27 October 2020 |
9:00 am
Japan's Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga on Monday set a 2050 deadline for the world's third-largest economy to become carbon neutral, significantly firming up the country's climate change commitments.
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