Oral anglais Tokyo

Today, we will tell you about a very special city: Tokyo

First of all, Tokyo is often seen as a polluting city, ignoring the new priority of ecology. Yet the capital is undertaking major projects and has made considerable efforts for nature.

The objective is to prove that Tokyo’s environmental actions are effective and that, compared to other cities, they require significant commitments. Even though they represent obvious constraints, they are at the origin of rather convincing results.

In order to solve these ecological problems, the projects put in place require organization and investment. For example, the Japanese megacity received the International Ministerial Conference on the Environment and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Tokyo is also interested in international projects. She had entered the Olympic race and had considered hosting this event. In the city’s projects, some of the sites to be built for the 2016 Olympic Games would have been temporary structures built, consistent with the principles of sustainable development. In addition, the plan called for public transit vehicles that emit very low or no CO2 as much as possible.

Tokyo has some unique projects. The Japanese capital planned to plant 1,000 hectares of green space throughout the city centre, a unique project in the history of urban planning. Tokyo also wants to become a green city, in the proper sense of the word. Five hundred thousand additional trees must be planted to reach a total of one million. The last point is that the no-take zones are multiplying, even if it means losing their jobs to dozens of fishermen. The government made the decision to promote the preservation of species for the employment of a few dozen fishermen. The only drawback is that «clandestine» fishing is growing rapidly.

Since 1983, 186 hectares of land originally used for industrial views have been converted mainly for recreation with parks. Japan has passed the milestone of 200,000 houses equipped with photovoltaic panels in contrast to France, which remains on its nuclear power plant projects.

Similarly, it is not normal for there to be no hydrogen vehicles in use in France, when there are already 10 stations distributing hydrogen in Japan.

Many companies in the megalopolis make Japan the first country to produce anti-pollution equipment.

Tokyo still combines a number of advantages favourable to public transport. The city has a large number of urban transport vehicles and therefore a reasonable rate of motorisation in view of the inhabitants' standard of living. It has also introduced a system of strict restrictions on urban parking in the city centre. But above all it has an extremely efficient and fast rail network that allows fluid movements. In April 2004, a law on the preservation of nature-imposed