Cool Earth 50

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Cool Earth 50 (also known as Cool Earth) is a plan developed by Japan to reduce global CO2 emissions 50% by 2050, which was discussed at the 34th G8 summit. Cool Earth 50 is planned to be a framework that would continue towards the goals set forth in the Kyoto Protocols. This plan includes three proposals: a long-term strategy, a mid-term strategy and launching a national campaign for achieving the Kyoto Protocol Target. [1]

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The plan was first proposed on May 24, 2007, at an international conference called Asian Future [2] and was initiated by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. [2] [3] The program's goal is to reduce current global green house emissions by 50% by the year 2050. [2] The goal of reduction was aimed particular towards the largest green house emitting countries The United States, China, Japan, and India. Also, for the major green house emitters to create a frame work for reduction. [4] Cool Earth aims at reducing green house emissions by improving technology in energy fields. [5] A large goal of Cool Earth is to promote economic prosperity through green technology and to encourage political stability domestically and internationally. [6]

Proposals

The proposals of this program include:

  1. A long-term strategy for global reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.
  2. Propose three principles for establishing an international framework for addressing global warming from 2013 onward.
  3. To launch a national campaign to ensure Japan achieves the Kyoto Protocol goal. [7]
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Blast Furnace

In addition, the proposal sets to make technological advancements in:

Course 50

Course 50 is a CO2 reduction strategy to reduce CO2 emissions by 30%. The aim of Course 50 is to suppress CO2 emissions from blast furnaces and to capture CO2 from blast furnaces. [8] The goal is to reach reduction by the year 2030. [8] The programs first phase was initiated in the year 2008 and funded by New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization.The original budget was approximately 10 billion yen. [8] Course 50 is encouraging innovation in technology towards more effective CO2 capturing polymers, as well as temperature reduction and improved efficiency of blast furnaces in the steel industrious. [9]

Solar

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Solar panels

Japan with Cool Earth has been expanding their solar power industry offering subsidies to improving solar powered infrastructure. The main research goal is to achieve a low cost high efficiency solar cell that offers a conversion efficiency of 40%. [10]

Hydrogen power

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Hydrogen cell

In 2009, Japan fitted over 100,000 homes with hydrogen powered fuel cells, improving its hydrogen powered infrastructure. [11]

Energy efficient technology

New development of LED light bulbs that utilize blue and white light has improved efficiency by over 25% since 2008. [12] The use of SerDes router technology having the capability to reduce energy waste from routers by over 50%. [13]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Invitation to "Cool Earth 50"
  2. 1 2 3 Kikkawa, Takeo (June 2009). Japan's Contribution to Cool Earth (PDF) (Report).
  3. ↑ Cool Earth 50 [ dead link ]
  4. ↑ Saijo, Tatsuyoshi; Hamasaki, Hiroshi (2010). "Designing Post-Kyoto Institutions: From the Reduction Rate to the Emissions Amount". Adaptation and Mitigation Strategies for Climate Change. pp. 85–96. doi:10.1007/978-4-431-99798-6_6. ISBN   978-4-431-99797-9.
  5. 1 2 "MOFA: New Proposal on Climate Change, "Cool Earth 50"". www.mofa.go.jp. Retrieved 2016-12-15.
  6. ↑ Okano-Heijmans, Maaike (July 2012). "Japan's 'green' economic diplomacy: environmental and energy technology and foreign relations". The Pacific Review. 25 (3): 339–364. doi:10.1080/09512748.2012.685090.
  7. ↑ "Speeches and Statements by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe". japan.kantei.go.jp. Retrieved 2016-12-15.
  8. 1 2 3 Tonomura, Shigeaki (2013). "Outline of Course 50". Energy Procedia. 37: 7160–7167. Bibcode:2013EnPro..37.7160T. doi:10.1016/j.egypro.2013.06.653.
  9. ↑ Hayashi, Mikihiro; Mimura, Tomohiro (2013). "Steel Industries in Japan Achieve Most Efficient Energy Cut - off Chemical Absorption Process for Carbon Dioxide Capture from Blast Furnace Gas". Energy Procedia. 37: 7134–7138. Bibcode:2013EnPro..37.7134H. doi:10.1016/j.egypro.2013.06.650.
  10. ↑ Lewis, Joanna; Sharick, Amber; Tian, Tian (13 January 2009). International motivations for solar photovoltaic market support: findings from the United States, Japan, Germany and Spain (PDF) (Report). Center for Resource Solutions and the Energy Foundation China Sustainable Energy Program.
  11. ↑ "Japan eyes Hydrogen Future". www.renewableenergyworld.com. Retrieved 2016-12-16.
  12. ↑ Su, Shi-Jian; Gonmori, Eisuke; Sasabe, Hisahiro; Kido, Junji (3 November 2008). "Highly Efficient Organic Blue-and White-Light-Emitting Devices Having a Carrier- and Exciton-Confining Structure for Reduced Efficiency Roll-Off". Advanced Materials. 20 (21): 4189–4194. Bibcode:2008AdM....20.4189S. doi:10.1002/adma.200801375.
  13. ↑ Yamada, M.; Yazaki, T.; Matsuyama, N.; Hayashi, T. (2009). "Power Efficient Approach and Performance Control for Routers". 2009 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops. pp. 1–5. doi:10.1109/ICCW.2009.5208039. ISBN   978-1-4244-3437-4.
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