Japan eyes greenhouse gas cut
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Japan's prime minister says the world should halve emissions of greenhouse gases by 2050.
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The European Commission set targets Wednesday for EU member states to slash greenhouse gases, seeking to calm fears about the burden of fighting climate change and warning that the cost of dithering would be much higher.
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Japan's Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda pledged Tokyo-led initiatives on climate change and economic development in the near future in a comment piece in the Financial Times on Friday.
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North Korea has said it may slow down work to disable its nuclear plants because of what it called a delay in promised energy aid, Japanese media reported Thursday.
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Russia could ratify the Kyoto Protocol by the end of the year and kick-start global attempts to control climate change, Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Zhukov said on Thursday.
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Japan will give $10bn over five years to help developing nations fight global warming, a newspaper reports.
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International rules allowing burial of greenhouse gases beneath the seabed enter into force on Saturday in what will be a step toward fighting global warming, if storage costs are cut and leaks can be averted.
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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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Australian and Japanese researchers are working on a prototype &quot;near zero-emission&quot; coal-fired electricity plant in an effort to reduce a major source of greenhouse gas emissions, they said.
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HEILIGENDAMM, Germany  - Group of Eight leaders of industrialized nations agreed on Thursday a need for "substantial" cuts in greenhouse gases, short of European calls for halving emissions by 2050, an EU source said.
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Companies are looking for ways to cut down on greenhouse gases and save money on increasingly expensive gasoline.
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The U.N. climate chief predicted Wednesday that the world will reach the goal of cutting greenhouse gases 50 percent by 2050 and said the U.S. economic slowdown should spur governments to take bolder action in confronting global warming.
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China&#39;s first plan for climate change  will seek to fortify the country against damage from global  warming but also against international pressure to cut  greenhouse gas pollution that Beijing calls the cost of growth.
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The Japanese government is considering whether to continue slashing foreign aid and defense spending through fiscal 2011, a news report has said.
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The Kyoto Protocol, which requires 35 nations to cut their greenhouse gas emissions, takes effect on Wednesday amid worries about its fairness.
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Greenhouse gas emissions will be less expensive to reduce than previously estimated, says United Nations panel.
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Science & environment: Japan accuses Australia of offering 'limousine service' to environmental activists