Business Weekly
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🗓️ 31 October 2020
⏱️ 50 minutes
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The new Japanese prime minister has pledged to make his country carbon neutral by 2050. On this edition of Business Weekly we ask how he’s planning to do it. We also take a closer look at nuclear energy to find out whether mass production of smaller reactors could be the way forward for the industry. And what can be done to get more medical grade oxygen to the countries that desperately need it? Plus, as the coronavirus pandemic forces Hollywood to delay the release of big budget movies, how are cinemas being affected? Business Weekly is produced by Matthew Davies and presented by Lucy Burton.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, if a week is a long time in politics, a day is a long time in business at the moment, |
| 0:06.1 | and it can be exhausting trying to keep up with all the latest developments. |
| 0:10.1 | That's why we've interrupted your Business Daily pod feed to bring you Business Weekly, |
| 0:14.4 | a new weekend programme which brings you an hour of the most interesting, inspiring and thought-provoking stories you might have missed |
| 0:21.7 | from the BBC's business team. |
| 0:27.6 | Hello and welcome to Business Weekly. I'm Lucy Burton and it's great to have you with us today. |
| 0:34.1 | This week we're going to be looking at energy as Japan's new prime minister has just pledged |
| 0:39.1 | to make his country carbon neutral by 2050. It's a big moment as Japan is the world's fifth |
| 0:45.6 | largest emitter of greenhouse gases and heavily reliant on fossil fuels. So given that, |
| 0:51.9 | how likely is it that this target will be met? |
| 0:54.8 | One avenue that the Japanese could go down is greater reliance on nuclear energy, |
| 1:00.1 | something the public is reticent about after the Fukushima disaster of 2011. |
| 1:05.1 | We have a special report today exploring the future of the nuclear industry. |
| 1:09.6 | And we'll take a look at oxygen. It's been used to |
| 1:12.9 | help COVID-19 patients, but in some parts of the world, it is in desperately short supply. Later in the |
| 1:19.1 | program, we'll ask what's being done to address the problem. But let's begin with a word from the |
| 1:24.1 | new Japanese prime minister. Yoshihidi Suga took over from the long-serving Shenzhou Abe in September, |
| 1:31.2 | and one of the first items on his agenda was climate change. |
| 1:34.6 | Here he is making an ambitious pledge. |
| 1:39.6 | We will bring the total amount of greenhouse gas emitted by Japan to net zero by 2050, meaning carbon neutral. |
| 1:47.6 | I declare we will aim to realise a decarbonised society. |
| 1:54.2 | The announcement was met with enthusiasm in Parliament. |
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