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Japan sets new emissions target in setback to UN treaty talks

Monday, November 18, 2013 1:01
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The Sydney Morning Herald -

Japan set a new target for greenhouse gas emissions that critics say will set  back United Nations talks for a treaty limiting fossil fuel emissions.

The new target effectively reverses course from the goal set four years ago  by allowing a 3.1 per cent increase in emissions from 1990 levels rather than  seeking a 25 per cent cut.

“This move by Japan could have a devastating impact on the tone of discussion  here in Warsaw,” Naoyuki Yamagishi, an official at WWF Japan, said in a  statement at climate talks in Poland in anticipation of Japan’s decision “It  could further accelerate the race to the bottom among other developed countries  when the world needs decisive and immediate actions to ‘raise’ ambition, not to  ‘lower’ ambition.”

Read more: smh.com.au



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