Tokyo, Japan: Japan is at risk of undermining its own recent commitments on carbon emissions reductions during a confused – and confusing – debate on forthcoming climate legislation, WWF said today.
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Japan is struggling over how to meet its ambitious promise to cut carbon emissions by a quarter from 1990 levels by 2020.
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TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan is expected to urge China to toughen its carbon intensity target at a Copenhagen climate conference starting next week, the Nikkei business daily reported on Thursday.
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Japan Iron and Steel Federation reported on Friday to Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry the steel industry’s energy consumption was 2,159 peta joules and carbon dioxide emission from energy was 176.3 million tonnes in fiscal 2008 ended March 2009, which was 11.5% and 12.1% lower than the level in fiscal 1990.
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* Panel’s work limited until govt outlines emissions policy
* Panel members are the same as one Tokyo bourse set last yr (Adds details, background)
TOKYO, Nov 25 (Reuters) – The Tokyo Stock Exchange [TSE.UL] and the Tokyo Commodity Exchange will hold the first meeting of a joint study panel on a carbon trading platform for Japan on Thursday, as the world’s fifth-biggest emitter makes slow progress on its emissions policy.
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TOKYO, Nov 25 (Reuters) – Tokyo Stock Exchange Inc [TSE.UL] and the Tokyo Commodity Exchange will hold the first meeting of a joint study panel of experts on a carbon trading platform on Thursday, a senior TSE official said.
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Japan’s efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions could cost households ¥130,000 to ¥765,000 a year, a task force said Tuesday.
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* Figure is 3 mln tonnes below previous estimate
* Japan steel makers, power firms major carbon credit buyers (Adds background)
TOKYO, Nov 17 (Reuters) – Japanese steel makers now calculate carbon credits they have bought from abroad at 56 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent, a business lobby said on Tuesday, down 3 million tonnes from their previous estimate.
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Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama and U.S. President Barack Obama reaffirmed at their summit Friday the shared goal of achieving an 80 percent cut in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 and supporting efforts by “the poor and most vulnerable” nations to combat climate change.
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Nov. 11 (Bloomberg) — Japan, the world’s fourth-biggest energy user, said the nation’s 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.
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I would like to commend Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama wholeheartedly for his determination to work toward a 25 percent reduction in greenhouse-gas emissions from 1990 levels by 2020. It is utterly absurd to question the feasibility of attaining this goal. Rather, the entire nation must recognize the unequivocal need to achieve it.
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Tetsurou Fukuyama, Japan’s Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs and upper house member of Japan’s Democratic Party, discussed the environmental policies of the Hatoyama administration Nov 5, 2009, at Smart Energy Symposium 2009.
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Tetsurou Fukuyama, Japan’s Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs and upper house member of Japan’s Democratic Party, discussed the environmental policies of the Hatoyama administration Nov 5, 2009, at Smart Energy Symposium 2009.
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Japan CO2 emissions originating from energy consumption had been down, this is the largest decline since 1965
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*Energy-origin CO2 makes up 90% of Japan greenhouse emissions
*Japan eyes minus 6% target (Adds details)
TOKYO, Oct 30 – Japan’s emissions of energy-origin CO2, the main global-warming greenhouse gas, fell 6.7 percent to 1,138 million tonnes in the year to March 2009 from a year earlier, the trade ministry said on Friday.
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