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RE: Have countries complied with the Kyoto Protocol?
I think Japan might have withdrawn from the Kyoto Protocol in 2011 because of the Fukushima disaster. They had to switch off all their nuclear power stations and burn oil. They've switched the nuclear power stations back on though from 2014 onwards.
At the tome Japan withdrew from Kyoto their emissions were above 1990 levels though - so they'd made no progress at all in reducing their emissions, and I guess the Fukushima disaster made things worse.
I wonder why Japan had made no progress with reducing emissions. They're a really high tech country - I would have thought they'd be into solar etc. Didn't they invent hybrid cars in the 1990's?