“Ethical Markets recommends these two interesting reports on environmental and gender aspects of the G20 Summit held in Osaka, Japan, thanks to our Japanese Correspondent Junko Kanzaki.
~Hazel Henderson, Editor”
Women Political Leaders summit opens ahead of G20 as Abe pushes to improve gender parity
Staff Writer
Jun 26, 2019
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe renewed his commitment to empower women and improve gender parity around the globe at the Women Political Leaders (WPL) Summit 2019 in Tokyo on Wednesday, ahead of the Group of 20 summit due to start Friday in Osaka.
Speaking to female politicians gathered for the two-day summit via a prerecorded video, Abe said that “societal change is possible if there is a clear vision coupled with concrete action.” He added that he will ask G20 leaders to commit to providing an additional 4 million young women with at least 12 years of high-quality education by 2020, and reducing the workforce participation gap between men and women by 25 percent by 2025. Continue reading by download the document
National | G20 Osaka Summit Special
Changing Environment
Japan weighs strategy after shocking climate report
Staff Writer
- Jun 27, 2019
OSAKA – In October 2018, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a report that sent shock waves around the globe. The world’s leading body of climate scientists warned that there might be only 12 years left to ensure global warming is kept to a rise of 1.5 degrees Celsius. Beyond that, the IPCC said, the risk of droughts, floods and extreme heat greatly increase.
“Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees would require rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society,” the report said.
The 1.5 degree figure represents the ideal goal under the 2015 Paris climate change agreement. Nations pledged to respond to the threat of global warming by “holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.”
Under the Paris accord, Japan must cut its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 26 percent compared with 2013 by 2030. But the October 2018 IPCC report has helped spur efforts by Japanese corporations, local governments and nongovernmental organizations to push the central government to go further.
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