U.S. climate envoy John Kerry held talks with Japanese officials on emissions pledges (SCMP) in Tokyo today and will travel to Tianjin, China, next. It is part of an effort to encourage China and Japan to build on recent commitments ahead of November’s UN climate summit. Kerry is expected to push China to stop financing coal-fired power plants abroad.
Japan: The Ministry of Defense requested record military spending (Kyodo) of around $49 billion for fiscal year 2022, the tenth consecutive year that defense spending would rise.
