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Companies in Japan must set renewable energy targets in as early as 2023

The aim of the policy is to encourage companies to use more clean energy and give a boost to their efforts toward decarbonization.

The writer says monitoring how these trading mechanisms work in practice and whether they have the desired effect will be important.

The city has more than 7.6 million motorbikes, and nearly 68 per cent of them have been on the roads for more than 10 years.

Voluntary carbon markets are on track to exceed US$1 billion in trades for the first time in 2021.

Both reactors of the Shidaowan plant are expected to be put into commercial operation by the end of June next year.

The project will generate nationwide climate and disaster risk information through a first-of-its-kind multi-hazard risk assessment.

Indonesia is aiming to have a total of 3.35 gigawatts (GW) of geothermal power production capacity by 2030.

China emits 27% of the world’s carbon dioxide, the most of any country.

Last year, Beijing enjoyed 276 days of good air quality, an increase of 36 days from 2019, data from the bureau revealed.

The electricity consumption by data centers alone in 2020 is estimated to account for 2.7 percent of the country's electricity consumption.