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Japan: New emissions goal derided as 'bad joke' at U.N. climate summit
2013-11-17 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: The governments decision to lower its carbon emissions target immediately came under widespread criticism from international negotiators at U.N. climate talks in Poland, with one environmental group calling it a bad joke. The United Nations, European Union and the worlds small island states reacted with disappointment to Fridays announcement by Environment Minister Nobuteru Ishihara in Tokyo, while green nongovernmental groups voiced fury. Today, Japan slashed its 2020 emission reduction...
Japan uses offsets to meet Kyoto emission goal: media
2013-11-17 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Japan met its Kyoto Protocol obligations to lower greenhouse gas emissions by planting trees and buying carbon credits as actual emissions rose, media reported on Sunday, days after the country watered down targets for cutting them further by 2020. Environment Minister Nobuteru Ishihara will release the preliminary figures on November 20 in Warsaw, where some 190 nations are meeting from November 11-22 to work on a global climate pact, the Nikkei and Asahi newspapers said. Japan, the world's...
Japan reduces goal for fighting climate change
2013-11-16 21:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
PBS: JUDY WOODRUFF: We will have more on the health insurance industry's response to the president's latest initiative right after the news summary. They kept counting bodies and kept waiting for help in the Central Philippines today. The confirmed death toll from last Friday's typhoon rose to 3,621, with at least 600,000 homeless. Survivors in the ravaged city of Tacloban swarmed the relief helicopters and trucks that did get through. ANGUS WALKER: A scramble for sacks of supplies, hunger in their...
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Under-fire Japan defends climate goal at UN talks
2013-11-16 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: The UN, Europe and the world's small island states reacted with disappointment and green groups voiced fury after Japan on Friday slashed its goal for greenhouse gas emissions. UN climate chief Christiana Figueres expressed "regret" at the move and others at the worldwide negotiations in Warsaw attacked it as a fresh blow to an already-troubled process. But Japan stood its ground and said the about-turn had been forced by the Fukushima nuclear accident in 2010. The country announced it would...
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Japan's new CO2 goal dismays U.N. climate conference
2013-11-15 08:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: China, the EU and environmentalists criticised Japan at U.N. climate talks on Friday for slashing its greenhouse gas emissions target after its nuclear power industry was shuttered by the Fukushima disaster. The Japanese government on Friday decided to target a 3.8 percent emissions cut by 2020 versus 2005 levels. That amounts to a 3 percent rise from a U.N. benchmark year of 1990 and the reversal of the previous target of a 25 percent reduction. "Given that none of the nuclear reactors is...
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