Five Principles for a Sustainable Low Carbon Society
The Japan-CLP proposes the following five fundamental principles, which we believe must be observed in order to create a sustainable low-carbon society.
- 1Pursuit of intergenerational responsibility
- We must live up to our intergenerational responsibility (our obligations to future generations) while meeting the needs of the current generation.
- 2Establishment of long-term policies to encourage early action
- We need the introduction of low-carbon policies that set a long-term direction and clear pathways providing appropriate economic incentives for early action on greenhouse gas reduction, allowing corporations to take advantage of new business and investment opportunities.
- 3A society based on the principle of burden sharing
- Society must operate with a set of fair rules based on the principle of burden sharing. Various stakeholders in society must share responsibilities and actual burdens, and similar agreement must be found among developed and developing countries.
- 4Development and deployment of low-carbon technologies
- The strategic development of low-carbon technologies and formulation of frameworks that enable the prompt and extensive deployment of low-carbon energy options, products and services are essential in order to encourage a low-carbon lifestyle.
- 5Improvement of the absorption capacity of ecosystems
- The conservation and restoration of ecosystems including forests, soil and the ocean are an important element of climate change measures in order to improve the capability of ecosystems to absorb and fix CO2.