{"id":129773,"date":"2020-02-19T15:55:54","date_gmt":"2020-02-19T06:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=129773&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2020-02-19T15:55:54","modified_gmt":"2020-02-19T06:55:54","slug":"kitakyushu-city-supporting-low-carbon-initiatives-overseas","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/kitakyushu-city-supporting-low-carbon-initiatives-overseas\/","title":{"rendered":"Kitakyushu City Supporting Low Carbon Initiatives Overseas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kitakyushu City is working on reducing plastic wastes in Southeast-Asian countries through a partnership with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP.) The city&#8217;s private companies will export schemes of recycling and waste to energy power generation technology. At the same time, Kitakyushu Asian Center for Low Carbon Society matches them with individual demands in the region. For the fiscal year of 2020, the city is planning to allocate a budget of over \u00a510 million for the project. <strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unenvironment.org\/news-and-stories\/story\/model-city-japan-helping-asian-cities-go-green\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">UN Environment<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/UN-japan-carbon.jpg?resize=1024%2C765&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"765\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-129774\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/UN-japan-carbon.jpg?resize=1024%2C765&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/UN-japan-carbon.jpg?resize=300%2C224&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/UN-japan-carbon.jpg?resize=768%2C574&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/UN-japan-carbon.jpg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/>Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unenvironment.org\/news-and-stories\/story\/model-city-japan-helping-asian-cities-go-green\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">UN Environment<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Disclaimer<\/strong>: Fukuoka Now posts summaries of Kyushu area related news for the benefit of those who cannot read Japanese. Contents posted here are mostly summaries of publicly posted news stories from Japanese media organizations. Errors might occur during translation. Those errors are ours, and not the news source\u2019s. Photos and images are sourced separately and are for illustrative purposes only. Please use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/contact\/\">this form<\/a> to send feedback and questions.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kitakyushu City is working on reducing plastic wastes in Southeast-Asian countries through a partnership with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP.) The city&#8217;s private&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29355,"featured_media":129774,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-129773","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-kitakyushu","news-category-environment","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/129773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29355"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129773"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}