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Nov. 11 (Bloomberg) — Japan, the worlds fourth-biggest energy user, said the nations greenhouse-gas emissions fell 6.2 percent in the year ended March 31 after the recession sapped industrial output and consumption of oil and natural gas.

Emissions of heat-trapping gases including carbon dioxide declined to 1.286 billion tons from 1.371 billion tons a year earlier, preliminary data from the environment ministry shows. Thats a 1.9 percent increase from 1990.

Factories and power plants reduced operations in Japan, slashing crude oil imports by 4.1 percent and natural gas by 0.2 percent last financial year, according to the finance ministry. Electricity output, the main source of carbon pollution, fell 3 percent, including a 6 percent drop in generation from burning oil, gas and coal, according to the Federation of Electric Power Companies.

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