Japan now has to get serious about greenhouse gases
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When Russian President Vladimir Putin put the finishing touches on his country&#39;s ratification of the Kyoto Protocol on Friday, reducing greenhouse gas emissions also moved one notch higher on Japan&#39;s policy agenda.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who has made climate change a key focus of her presidency of the G8 group of world leaders, flew Wednesday into Japan for talks a decade after the Kyoto Protocol.
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At the meeting of the world's biggest polluters in Hawaii this week, host US has a chance to show it is serious about action on climate change.
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China said Tuesday it was working hard to increase its use of renewable energy, but needs to be given some leeway in the global effort to reduce greenhouse gases.
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The current pressing task for Japan should be to work harder to qualify itself for a seat on the United Nations (UN) Security Council but not to hurriedly squeeze the country into the body, said a Xinhua News Agency commentary.
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If the world is to end the threat from climate change, we need to be able to produce more with less energy.
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Signing the Kyoto Protocols is one thing, adhering to it something else again. Greenhouse gas emissions rise for the industrialized nations, who look like they're going to have a hard time reigning in their waste to meet 2012 goals.
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Climate scientists tell a Stockholm conference that greater efforts should be made to pull CO2 from the atmosphere.
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Japan's prime minister proposed cutting world greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2050 on Thursday as part of a new global warming pact for all countries, including top polluters United States and China.
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Negotiating with North Korea is rarely anything but bumpy. But in recent months, Japan once got close to getting Pyongyang&#39;s commitment to rejoin the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT)-but Tokyo blew it.
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BERLIN -- The leaders of the world's second- and third-largest economies, Japan and Germany, pressed the biggest -- the United States -- yesterday to agree to dramatic action in addressing climate change at a Group of 8 summit meeting next month.
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The world's governments must dramatically cut emissions of heat-trapping gases or learn to live with more droughts, heat waves, powerful rainstorms, and rising sea levels that will affect millions, leading climate scientists said after the release of a landmark global warming report yesterday.
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TOKYO -- Two centuries after the dawn of the industrial age, the world today takes its first concerted step to roll back the emission of "greenhouse gases" believed linked to climate change with the enactment of the Kyoto global warming pact.
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Japan has drawn up an action plan to  spearhead efforts to develop the next generation of more  environmentally friendly vehicles and batteries to help reduce  its reliance on oil.
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VIENNA, Aug 28 (IPS) - Human-made emissions of greenhouse gases believed  to provoke damaging climate change must peak in the next 10 to 15  years, and be reduced afterwards by well over 50 percent from  current levels until 2050, a top UN climate official said here  Tuesday.
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Japan will push for a year after 1990 to be used as the reference point for greenhouse emission cuts in a post-Kyoto deal as chair of the G8 summit in July, Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda said Saturday.
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An explosion in demand for air conditioners that rely on ozone-depleting refrigerants in India and China is becoming a fast-growing threat to efforts to combat global warming.