In Japan, office & commercial, household, and transport sectors have made less progress in reducing CO2 emissions than has an industrial sector. CO2 emissions in these three sectors account for a half of Japan’s total CO2 emissions as of 2010. Since 90% of Japanese population live in urban...

In Asia, many municipalities are actively tackling an issue of global warming by setting their respective voluntary targets of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions abatement. Some of them in China, India, and Japan have already introduced or plan to introduce municipal emissions trading schemes. These...