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Japan Wants All Nations in Post-Kyoto Deal

Japan wants all nations — including the United States and especially China — to be bound by the next framework aimed at fighting global warming, Environment Minister Yuriko Koike announced this last Friday. To discuss taking the Kyoto Protocol beyond 2012, Officials from 150 countries will meet in Montreal next month. Japan, which is struggling to meet its own goal of cutting greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, has long maintained that the country’s impact on the Earth pales compared to that of China, the world’s second-largest producer of greenhouse gases after the United States .

Centered on finding a way to bring in countries not bound by Kyoto such as the United States, the discussions are expected to boom economies such as China and India, which as developing nations have no obligation to cut emissions for the present.

Via: Environmental News Network

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