本文转自《Climate Home News》发表的题为“Japan sets carbon neutral goal with focus on capturing emissions”的报道。

日期：2019.06.12

原文链接：https://climatechangenews.com/2019/06/12/japan-says-will-carbon-neutral-fails-set-timeline/?tdsourcetag=s_pcqq_aiomsg

作者：Natalie Sauer

The coal dependent country focuses on innovation as it moves toward ending its contribution to climate change

这个依赖煤炭的国家在走向终结其对气候变化的贡献之际，把重点放在了创新上

Heavy on tech, light on any plans to tackle its coal dependency, Japan has released a long-term climate strategy

日本发布了一项长期气候战略，重点关注科技，重视解决煤炭依赖问题的任何计划

Hours before the UK announced it would legislate to go net zero by 2050, the centre-right cabinet of the world’s third largest economy approved a plan setting “a carbon-neutral society as the final goal, and seek[ing] to realise it at the earliest possible time in the latter half of this century”.

几小时前英国宣布将于2050年通过立法实现净零排放，这个世界第三大经济体的中右翼内阁批准了一项计划，即“将碳中和社会作为最终目标，并寻求实现这一目标，尽早在本世纪下半叶实现“。

The strategy builds on a 2016 pledge to slash emissions by 80% by 2050 from 2010 levels, and sets out to innovate in areas such as hydrogen and carbon dioxide capture and utilization.

该战略建立在2016年的承诺基础上，即到2050年将排放量从2010年的水平削减80％，并着手在氢气和二氧化碳捕获和利用等领域进行创新。

It commits to commercializing carbon capture and utilization (CCU) technology by 2023, and carbon capture and storage (CCS) used in coal-fired power generation by 2030. It also aims to slash production costs of hydrogen to less than one-tenth by 2050.

它承诺到2023年将碳捕获和利用（CCU）技术商业化，到2030年用于燃煤发电的碳捕获和存储（CCS）。它还旨在到2050年将氢的生产成本削减到不到十分之一。

The plan has been criticised for not tackling the country’s coal dependency. The fuel powered 33% of the country’s electricity in 2015, according to data from the World Bank, while Japanese banks and development agencies are financing coal-fired power plants from Vietnam to Indonesia. In Japan, 30 new coal-fired power plants are either at the stage of planning or construction.

该计划因没有解决该国的煤炭依赖性而受到批评。 根据世界银行的数据，该燃料在2015年为该国33％的电力提供动力，而日本的银行和开发机构正在资助从越南到印度尼西亚的燃煤电厂。 在日本，30个新的燃煤发电厂正处于规划或建设阶段。

Green groups said the legislation was unambitious. So-called “‘disruptive innovation’ [is] often used as an excuse to avoid the implementation of reduction measures by technologies that can be used immediately,” Yuri Okubo, a senior researcher at the Renewable Energy Institute, said, before warning that Japan risked becoming a “CCS, CCU, and hydrogen society”.

绿色组织表示，这项立法毫无疑问。 可再生能源研究所的高级研究员Yuri Okubo表示，所谓的“破坏性创新”通常被用来作为避免通过可立即使用的技术实施减少措施的借口，然后警告日本 冒险成为“CCS，CCU和氢社会”。

“If Japan still aims to [receive] a quarter of its power source from coal by 2030 and does not revise its low renewable energy target, Japan will not be seen as taking a serious stance on tackling climate change,” Okubo said.

“如果日本仍然希望在2030年之前从煤炭中获得四分之一的电力来源并且不会修改其低可再生能源目标，那么日本将不会被视为在应对气候变化方面采取严肃态度，”Okubo 说。