Sustainable technologies

China overtakes Japan as largest car exporter

Data from a Japanese auto industry association show that China overtook Japan as the world's largest vehicle exporter last year.

The Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association reported Japan exported 4.42 million vehicles in 2023, up 16 percent from a year earlier, while domestic auto sales totaled nearly 4.78 million vehicles.

Japan to stop building 'unabated' coal plants: PM

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has vowed to stop building new coal-fired power plants that lack measures to cut carbon emissions.

The announcement was made at the UN's COP 28 climate summit in Dubai, as Japan, heavily reliant on imported coal and other fossil fuels, aims to become carbon-neutral by 2050.

China emissions could fall in 2024 on renewables jump

China's carbon emissions are likely to fall in 2024 because record growth in renewable energy capacity is now sufficient to cover growing demand, a new analysis finds.

China is the world's largest greenhouse gas emitter and has brushed aside calls for a more ambitious carbon neutrality target than its current 2060 goal.

Heating allowance for electricity users

A heating allowance for those who will heat their homes this year with electricity, a special tariff for those with many children, free electricity for vulnerable households through the Apollo program, as well as a strict framework for electricity theft and strategic defaulters, comprise the package of measures to reduce of energy costs that Environment and Energy Minister Thodoros Skylakakis p

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