Yokohama City

Japan Mayor: Takeharu YAMANAKA
Summary
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    Population 3731096
  • km 2
    Area 435.0
  • JPY
    GDP 12 Trillion
  • emission
    Targets by N/A N/A
Targets

Targets by Yokohama City

Renewable energy target

 

  • The Yokohama City committed to increase its Installed capacity of Renewable energy in Community to 429 MW by 2020
  • Current Installed capacity of Renewable energy: 219.0 MW 2022
  • The target is going to be reached by activities in Electricity, Heating & cooling and Industry sector.
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Energy efficiency target

 

23% Energy efficiency improvement by 2020

  • The Yokohama City committed to increase its energy efficiency in Final energy and Community energy consumption by 23% by 2020 compared to 2005 levels.
  • Final energy energy consumption: 74861111.11 Mwh
  • This target will be achieved in Electricity, Transport, Heating & cooling and Industry sectors

 

Actions
Yokohama City Action Plan for Global Warming Countermesures
City planning based on public transportation - Yokohama City
  • Start year:
  • Type: Strategy / Policy
  • Status: In operation

Regarding “City planning based on public transportation” as listed in the action plan, it is clearly positioned also in city transportation plan.
In this plan, we set the goal of “To be able to reach the nearest railway station from home in 15 minutes" and we already cover an area of 95% of total population.
City inducted land use as below through regulation and cooperation with various stakeholders.

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Sectors:
  • Transport
local action
Yokohama Smart City Project - Yokohama City
  • Start year:
  • Type: Strategy / Policy
  • Status: Completed

Yokohama Smart City Project (YSCP) is an initiative that was selected as a Next Generation Energy Infrastructure and Social System Demonstration Area by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry in 2010. The City collaborated with 34 private enterprises, including the nation's leading energy-related businesses and electric appliance manufacturers, to work on various activities to introduce and verify systems that optimized the energy demand-supply balance in the existing urban areas comprising residences and business buildings.

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Sectors:
  • Residential
  • Commercial
  • Industrial
Global Warming Countermeasure Plan Reporting System - Yokohama City
  • Start year:
  • Type: Regulation
  • Status: In operation

The City of Yokohama has a scheme where GHG-emitting businesses over a certain scale are required to submit their own plans for global warming countermeasures and implementation reports. By assessing and publishing their plans and reports and by conferring awards to businesses of excellence, the scheme is aimed to encourage self-regulated efforts by the private sector to adopt global warming countermeasures

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Sectors:
  • Commercial
  • Industrial
  • Transport
Inventories
Community inventories

The Yokohama City has reported 2 Community emission inventories, since 2008. In its latest inventory, compiled in 2014, the are identified as key emission sources.

GHG emission from Yokohama City
GHG inventory in 2014
Government operations inventory

The Yokohama City has reported 1 government operational inventory, since 2014. In its latest inventory, compiled in 2014, the Waste management is identified as key emission source.

GHG emission from Yokohama City
GHG inventory in 2014

Mayor Takeharu YAMANAKA
Yokohama City, Japan

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Initiative

Compact of Mayors - ICLEI

Status of compliance

Compact of Mayors
full compliance
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