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Despite the rapid and significant changes in consumption patterns witnessed during the initial months of the COVID-19 pandemic, Japanese households maintained their normal levels of greenhouse gases emissions. The “anthropause” reduction of human activity due to the pandemic made headlines last summer, but factory shutdowns and broken global supply chains did not translate into the adoption of eco-friendly lifestyles for the average household.
Despite the rapid and significant changes in consumption patterns witnessed during the initial months of the COVID-19 pandemic, Japanese households maintained their normal levels of greenhouse gases emissions. The “anthropause” reduction of human activity due to the pandemic made headlines last summer, but factory shutdowns and broken global supply chains did not translate into the adoption of eco-friendly lifestyles for the average household.
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IMAGE: Researchers at the University of Tokyo examined how lifestyle changes during the COVID-19 state of emergency affected the consumption habits and associated carbon footprints of Japanese households. The carbon footprints. view more
Credit: Image by Yin Long, first published in One Earth DOI: 10.1016/j.oneear.2021.03.003
Despite the rapid and significant changes in consumption patterns witnessed during the initial months of the COVID-19 pandemic, Japanese households maintained their normal levels of greenhouse gases emissions. The anthropause reduction of human activity due to the pandemic made headlines last summer, but factory shutdowns and broken global supply chains did not translate into the adoption of eco-friendly lifestyles for the average household.
Student questions Japan s climate reduction target
A Japanese university student is questioning the government s new target for cutting greenhouse gas emissions.
Nakamura Suzuka, who is a member of the international youth climate movement Fridays for Future, attended the Lower House committee meeting as an observer on Friday.
The movement emerged after Swedish activist Greta Thunberg began skipping school every Friday in 2018 to bring attention to climate change.
Nakamura said Prime Minister Suga Yoshihide did not show scientific evidence when he announced his new target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions on Thursday. She said the target is not enough to protect peoples lives from climate change.