Global Warming Countermeasures
- Tokyo is promoting the increased use of solar energy.
- Creation of a mechanism to reduce the costs of introducing solar energy equipment.
- People can recover initial investment in 10 years.
- Tokyo hopes to achieve the use of 1 million kW of solar energy by 2016.
- The three-year model will support 40,000 households to install solar energy equipment.
- Tokyo is reinforcing the measures of energy suppliers.
- Promoting the commitment to reduce carbon dioxide emission factors among energy suppliers through:
- Expanding the purchasing of green electricity
- Expanding to introduce renewable energy
- Promoting the commitment to reduce carbon dioxide emission factors among energy suppliers through:
- Tokyo is promoting the purchase of green energy
- Increasing the government’s purchase amount of green energy.
- Developing a nationwide green energy-purchasing forum to be conducted by municipalities, non-profit organizations, and businesses.
- They are trying to treat the cost of purchasing green power with certificates as “debt” on corporate tax and carbon dioxide emission reduction as a legally defined statement.
