Can Japan enhance its 2030 greenhouse gas emission reduction targets? Assessment of economic and energy-related assumptions in Japan's NDC

Akihisa Kuriyama, Kentaro Tamura and Takeshi Kuramochi

Energy Policy, 2019, vol. 130, issue C, 328-340

Abstract: This study investigates the stringency of Japan's greenhouse gas emissions reduction target for 2030 (nationally determined contribution: NDC), focusing on the macroeconomic assumptions of Kaya indicators and others previously overlooked, e.g. GDP per working-age population. It also conducts a decomposition analysis in light of historic political and economic events.

Keywords: GHG emissions; Climate policy; Kaya identity; Japan; Paris Agreement; LMDI analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2019.03.055

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