{"id":383847,"date":"2020-11-12T12:14:34","date_gmt":"2020-11-12T06:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=383847"},"modified":"2020-11-12T12:14:34","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T06:44:34","slug":"japans-toshiba-retreats-from-coal-fired-power-stations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/japans-toshiba-retreats-from-coal-fired-power-stations\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan&#8217;s Toshiba retreats from coal-fired power stations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO: Japanese engineering giant Toshiba will not build any more coal-fired power plants and will shift to renewable energy in a bid to reduce greenhouse emissions, the company&#8217;s president said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>But none of its existing coal-power construction projects will be scrapped, said the firm, which has around 10 underway worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will stop accepting new orders to build coal-fired plants, and seek to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 50 percent by 2030,&#8221; Toshiba&#8217;s president Nobuaki Kurumatani told reporters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO: Japanese engineering giant Toshiba will not build any more coal-fired power plants and will shift to renewable energy in a bid to reduce greenhouse emissions, the company&#8217;s president said Wednesday. But none of its existing coal-power construction projects will be scrapped, said the firm, which has around 10 underway worldwide. &#8220;We will stop accepting new orders to build coal-fired plants, and seek to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 50 percent by 2030,&#8221; Toshiba&#8217;s president Nobuaki Kurumatani told reporters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,243,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-383847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-new-indian-express","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}