More Japanese companies are seeking to export carbon dioxide emissions to Southeast Asian nations and elsewhere for underground storage as a way to tackle climate change, with over a dozen projects in the works, a tally by Kyodo News shows.
Japan s greenhouse gas emissions hit a record low in the year through March 2021, marking the seventh consecutive year of decline, according to the Environment Ministry
A British research group has urged Japan to reconsider promoting carbon capture and storage and a so-called integrated gasification combined cycle because such technologies are not only costly but do not significantly cut the country s carbon dioxide emissions.
Japanese contractor Taisei Corp. has developed a technology to convert carbon dioxide, a common greenhouse gas, emitted at manufacturing plants into a building material.