Brazil pledges to reduce greenhouse gas emissions ahead of Paris agreement

STOCKHOLM –  Brazil has pledged to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 37 percent by 2025 from 2005 levels as part of its contribution to a pact to fight global warming.

President Dilma Rousseff announced Brazil's targets for a landmark agreement on climate change in an address to the U.N. in New York on Sunday.
In addition to its 2025 commitment, Rousseff said Brazil has an "ambition" of achieving 43 percent emissions reductions by 2030.
Brazil intends to reach those goals by boosting renewable energy sources including solar, wind and biomass and continuing to reduce deforestation in the Amazon region.
The World Resources Institute, an environmental think tank, says Brazil's emissions fell about 36 percent between 2005 and 2011 primarily due to efforts to reduce deforestation, a major emissions source in Brazil.

Published September 27, 2015

Associated Press

JAPAN OCEAN ENERGY: Taking advantage of remote islands surrounded by large areas of ocean

Goto City has developed an extensive renewable energy plan, with a mission of “Islands of Energy – Energizing the town by producing energy.” By maximizing its natural resources, it is planning to cover 132.4 percent of its total energy needs (oil, gas and electricity) with renewable energy by 2030. “With the population decline and aging, we fear to become a disappearing community,” Kazuyuki Kitagawa, a spokesperson for the Goto City Renewable Energy Promotion Department, said. “Exceeding our energy self-sufficiency level is not our ultimate goal. It is one of the solutions to stimulate our local economy by creating local employment and industry for years to come. We are aiming at locally producing and exporting renewable energy.” In 2012, renewable energy provided 4.4 percent of the city’s total energy consumption, producing 97,189 gigajoules (Gj) per year, the equivalent of 27 GWh per year. Of 27 GWh, 88.5 percent was provided mostly by onshore wind power. “By taking advantage of our remote islands surrounded by large areas of ocean, we will put priorities on developing ocean energy,” Kitagawa said.

 

Read Source: Japan: Goto City Aims to Become ‘Islands of Energy’ by Harnessing Offshore Wind

September 30, 2015

By Junko Movellan, Correspondent
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