Correct Answer : Tokyo
All new houses in Tokyo built by large-scale homebuilders after April 2025 must install solar power panels to cut household carbon emissions, according to a new regulation passed by the Japanese capital's local assembly on Thursday(15th Dec 2022).
* The mandate, the first of its kind for a Japanese municipality, requires about 50 major builders to equip homes of up to 2,000 square metres (21,500 square feet) with renewable energy power sources, mainly solar panels.
* Tokyo Governor "Yuriko Koike" noted last week that just 4% of buildings where solar panels could be installed in the city have them now.
* The Tokyo Metropolitan Government aims to halve greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 compared with 2000 levels.
* Japan, the
world's fifth-largest carbon emitter, has committed to achieving
carbon neutrality by 2050 but faces difficulty as it has relied heavily on coal-burning thermal power after most of its nuclear reactors were in the wake of the 2011 Fukushima disaster..
Source : Reuters
