{"id":12313,"date":"2017-01-24T09:30:31","date_gmt":"2017-01-24T01:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/?p=12313"},"modified":"2017-01-24T11:06:18","modified_gmt":"2017-01-24T03:06:18","slug":"ph-is-japans-17th-joint-crediting-mechanism-jcm-partner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/2017\/01\/24\/ph-is-japans-17th-joint-crediting-mechanism-jcm-partner\/","title":{"rendered":"PH is Japan\u2019s 17th Joint Crediting Mechanism (JCM) partner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a report published by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meti.go.jp\/english\/press\/2017\/0112_001.html\">meti.go.jp<\/a>, Japan and the Philippines concluded a bilateral document on January 12, 2017 to establish a Joint Crediting Mechanism (JCM)\u00a0that will help reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the country with the help of Japan\u2019s outstanding low-carbon technology.<\/p>\n<p>Kazuhide Ishikawa, Ambassador of Japan to the Republic of the Philippines, and Regina Paz L. Lopez, Secretary of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, signed the agreement to establish a joint committee and launch the operation of the JCM in the Philippines.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12316\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/01\/jcm2.jpg\" alt=\"jcm2\" width=\"778\" height=\"215\" \/><em>Image grabbed from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mmechanisms.org\/e\/initiatives\/jcm.html\">mmechanisms.org<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Through the mechanism, Japan will contribute not only to the Philippines\u2019 environmental, energy and economic growth but also to international efforts to prevent climate change.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mmechanisms.org\/e\/initiatives\/jcm.html\">mmechanisms.org<\/a>, JCM evaluate contributions from Japan to greenhouse gas emission reductions or removals in a quantitative manner achieved through the diffusion of low carbon technologies, products, systems, services, and infrastructure as well as implementation of mitigation actions in developing countries.<\/p>\n<p>To-date, there are 17 JCM partner countries including Mongolia, Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Kenya, Maldives, Viet Nam, Lao PDR, Indonesia, Costa Rica, Palau, Cambodia, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, Chile, Myanmar, Thailand, and Philippines.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mmechanisms.org\/e\/initiatives\/jcm.html\">mmechanisms.org<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meti.go.jp\/english\/press\/2017\/0112_001.html\">meti.go.jp<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan and the Philippines concluded a bilateral document on January 12, 2017 to establish a Joint Crediting Mechanism (JCM).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12316,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2164,2163],"class_list":["post-12313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-current-events","tag-japan-philippines-joint-crediting-mechanism-jcm","tag-joint-crediting-mechanism-jcm"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/01\/jcm2-e1485226376660.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12313"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12323,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12313\/revisions\/12323"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}