Climate Change
Meeting between Foreign Minister Kono and Mr. Bloomberg (Former NY mayor)
On December 11, Foreign minister Kono met Mr. Michael Bloomberg (Founder of Bloomberg L.P. and Bloomberg Philanthropies, Former NY mayor) during 19:15-19:45 in Paris, France. The overview of the meeting is as follows;
Minister Kono applauded the activity of Mr. Bloomberg in promoting climate change measures within and outside the United States. Mr. Bloomberg explained that companies, local governments, NGO and citizens in the United States have been actively taking measures to tackle climate change and these movements brought great change in the United States. He further mentioned that introduction of renewable energy has been expanding due to not only climate change and environment aspects but economic reasons since the price of renewable energy has been declining significantly. They reaffirmed that each country needs to take measures because climate change has been posing negative impacts in all over the world and agreed that they will further cooperate in the field of climate change.