Japan’s most powerful government ministry doesn’t have one of the world’s biggest problems on its radar screen, according to a former top official at the ministry.
“Climate change is a problem that will change the economic system itself,” said Rintaro Tamaki, a former top bureaucrat at the Finance Ministry, which is in charge of the country’s budget and its tax rules. “But no one at the Finance Ministry is really paying attention to it.”
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