In a bid to combat climate change, the government hopes to achieve practical use of new technologies that would help reduce global greenhouse gas emissions by up to about 10 billion tons by 2050, a draft of the strategy showed Wednesday.
Seeing climate change as a top priority issue, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has ordered his government to craft a plan designed to strengthen the country's technological development and enable it to spearhead global efforts for drastic greenhouse gas emission cuts.
The key features of the envisioned strategy include introducing technologies such as those making use of more efficient and cheaper solar and storage batteries.