Japan rejects 2009 deadline in post-Kyoto talks
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Japan blocked European Union  efforts on Tuesday to set a 2009 deadline for agreement on an  international pact to battle climate change once the Kyoto  Protocol on reducing carbon emissions expires in 2012.
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From the anchor desk... A day after a senior Russian official attending a UN environmental conference in Milan said that Russia would not ratify the Kyoto Protocol on global warming in its present form, leaders
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Japan's proposal to resume commercial hunting of minke whales is rejected by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species.
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Japan stood by its refusal to give aid to North Korea on Tuesday unless Pyongyang settles a feud over Japanese kidnapped decades ago, adding a new twist to this week's talks on ending the North's nuclear arms program.
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Environmentalists reject US claims that it is doing as much to curb global warming as Kyoto deal nations.
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"The risk of the global economy taking a downward turn is increasing"  The United States, China and India must be part of the follow-up treaty to the Kyoto Protocol and agree to cut carbon emissions, Denmark's prime minister said Saturday. Japan's leader offered them a bold strategy for doing it.Climate change returned to the fore at the World Economic Forum's annual meeting, where Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda proposed a 2020 deadline for countries to boost their energy efficiency by 30 percent. He added that Japan would try to spread its high-quality environmental technology around the world. Read more
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Japan is trying to reach agreement on a fence-mending summit between its new Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and China, and set a date for a similar meeting with South Korea, Tokyo's top government spokesman said on Monday.
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Japanese officials, arriving in Washington on Thursday for a historic meeting between the Group of Seven (G7) nations and China, distanced themselves from US demands for a review of China&#39;s currency policy.
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The Kyoto Protocol is dead -- there will be no further global treaties that set binding limits on the emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG) after Kyoto runs out in 2012.
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The United States has rejected Germany's bid to get the Group of Eight to agree to tough cuts in climate warming carbon emissions, according to a draft of the communique to be presented to next month's meeting.
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The Kyoto agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions doesn't take effect for two months, but climate change negotiators are already fixated on what happens when it expires in 2012.
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Japan is trying to take the lead on climate change at this week's G-8 summit, but the world's second-largest economy is falling behind on its existing obligations to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
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TOKYO - Japan insisted yesterday it would not bow to the demands of militants in Iraq who threatened to behead a young Japanese unless Tokyo pulls its troops from the country within 48 hours.
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A group of global lawmakers signed a resolution Thursday urging a new agreement limiting greenhouse gas emissions by 2009 to succeed the Kyoto protocol, which is set to expire in 2012.Comment
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The Kyoto Protocol on curbing global warming has been in limbo since 2001, when the United States rejected it outright, for valid reasons.
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Talks on North Korea's nuclear programme face problems over Pyongyang's energy demands, Japan says.
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Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi on Tuesday rejected a suggestion by Russian President Vladimir Putin that the dispute over the Northern Territories be settled with the return of two of the four islands.