Educated at Columbia University, the 38-year-old Mr. Koizumi is one of the youngest lawmakers in postwar history to join Japan’s cabinet. He was named environment minister in September by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and, fresh off his marriage to glamorous, half-French television personality Christel Takigawa, he looked ready to follow in his father’s footsteps. Almost immediately after taking office, Mr. Koizumi encouraged environmentalists. “We are committed to realizing a decarbonized society and we are ready to contribute as a more powerful country in the fight against climate change,” he said in New York on the eve of the United Nations Climate Change Summit in September. Tackling climate change has to be made “fun,” “cool” and “sexy,” he added. Created with Highcharts 6.0.4Counting on CoalPower plants burning coal still account formore than a quarter of […]