Dr Yuki Tanabe, the Sustainable Development and Aid Program Coordinator, Japan Center for a Sustainable Environment and Society, is addressing the Climate Integrity Summit.

He has exposed the myth that Japan’s energy security depends on Australia LNG imports, pointing out that narrative serves commercial interests rather than reflecting genuine energy vulnerability or regional instability.

He’s provided three reasons why Japan does not need any more of Australia’s gas:

• LNG projects in Japan, proposed and new, are not in line with the Paris agreement
• Japan’s new gas deal are not for ‘energy security’ and Japan’s LNG re-selling is larger than what it is importing from Australia
• Hydrogen and Ammonia co-firing is not economically viable (and not in line with the Paris agreement)