3️⃣ *Japan has pledged to slash greenhouse gas emissions by 60% in the next decade from 2013 levels* but climate *campaigners said the target fell short of what was needed under the Paris Agreement* to limit global warming. 🇯🇵 🏭 *Under the Paris accord,* each country is supposed to provide *a headline figure to the United Nations for cutting heat-trapping emissions by 2035,* and a detailed blueprint for how to achieve this. *Japan is heavily dependent on imported fossil fuels* as the world's *fifth largest single-country emitter of carbon dioxide* after China, the United States, India and Russia. On Tuesday, *Tokyo's environment ministry said the country would slash emissions by 60% by the 2035* fiscal year. But Masayoshi Iyoda from *environmental group 350.org* noted that *scientists say an emissions cut of 81% by 2035 is needed for Japan to honour its commitments* to the 1.5 degree objective.