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Barry Artiste. Now Public Contributor
Japan, always the trendsetter when it comes to efficiency from cars to environment has been touted as the most energy efficient country on earth.
Certainly something we can all aspire to, especially if they can bottle it and sell it to a energy hungry world looking at reducing energy costs at the same time.
http://www.financialpost.com/money/story.html?id=645700
The most energy-efficient countries
Japan has very little domestic energy production and is forced to import most of its fuel supply--creating a powerful economic incentive to use those expensive imports efficiently.
Next year in Copenhagen, world leaders will assemble and attempt to write the successor agreement to the 10-year-old Kyoto protocol. In order for countries to make dramatic reductions for a greener future, energy efficiency will likely be a big part of the equation.
What they'll find is a huge gap between countries with a head start, and those still in the blocks. Not surprising, the countries with the most energy-efficient economies are those who import their energy supplies.
Japan leads the way. It is, after all, birthplace of the Kyoto Protocols for climate change. More important, Japan has very little domestic energy production and is forced to import most of its fuel supply--creating a powerful economic incentive to use those expensive imports efficiently.
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