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Japan adopts green growth plan to go carbon free by 2050

by Mari Yamaguchi
| December 27, 2020 12:03 AM

TOKYO (AP) — Japan aims to eliminate gasoline-powered vehicles in about 15 years, the government said Friday in a plan to achieve Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga’s ambitious pledge to go carbon free by 2050 and generate nearly $2 trillion growth in green business and investment.

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