Japan sees emissions rise

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"Increased use of fossil fuels for power generation was the main driving force behind a rise in Japanese greenhouse gas emissions for 2011, even though the country saw a fall in manufacturing output.

Preliminary figures for the 2011 financial year released by Japan's Ministry of the Environment show total greenhouse gas emissions of 1307 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent. This is 49 million tonnes more than in 2010, an increase of 3.9%. It is also up 3.6% from 1990 figures, the base year under the Kyoto protocol.

According to the ministry, the key driver for the rise in emissions is the expansion in thermal power generation: energy-origin CO2 emissions are 4.4% higher than in 2010. All of Japan's nuclear power plants, which normally produce some 30% of the country's electricity, were taken out of service for safety checks following on from the Great East Japan earthquake and tsunami of March 2011 which wrecked the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Since then, the country has been relying heavily on generation from liquefied natural gas (LNG) and coal, both of which it must import."

http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/EE-Japan_sees_emissions_rise-1012127.html

[NickB79]

1. Gee, who could have forseen this?

Surely no one here on the E/E board possibly predicted this occurring