At today’s special UN summit on climate change, PM Yukio Hatoyama pledged that Japan would cut emissions by 25 percent by 2020. Additionally, he called for countries like the U.S. and Japan itself to step up their A-game. Japan’s track record has room for improvement:
Under the Kyoto Protocol, Japan promised to trim emissions of the greenhouse gases by 6 percent from the 1990 levels by 2012. In fact they rose 8.7 percent in the year ended March 2008.
Developed Nations Must Take Lead on Climate Change, Says Japan [Bloomberg]
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