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Accepted Paper:
The end of Japan’s coal-fired power plants support: explaining the “green shift” in Japan’s development cooperation
Raymond Yamamoto
(Aarhus University)
Hironori Sasada
(Hokkaido University)
Despite having ratified the Paris Agreement in 2015, Japan continued to be one of the most active promoters of coal-fired power plants (CFPP). This paper aims to explore why the Abe Government initiated the process of gradually distancing itself from exporting coal infrastructure in 2020.
Paper long abstract:
Despite having ratified the Paris Agreement in 2015, an internationally binding treaty addressing climate change, Japan continued to be one of the most active promoters of coal-fired power plants (CFPP), particularly in Asia. However, the Abe Government surprised the international community first in July 2020 by announcing the introduction of stricter criteria to promote coal power plants, and the succeeding Suga Governments again a year later at the G7 Summit in the UK by pledging to entirely stop the export of “unabated” CFPPs by the end of 2021. Using the Advocacy Coalition Framework this paper explores the political deliberations led by the Ministry of Environment that led the Government to gradually distance itself from exporting CFPPs.