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Wed, 07/02/2008 - 15:49
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G8 states not to agree on cutting greenhouse gas emissions
TOKYO, July 2 (Itar-Tass) - At an upcoming summit the G8 states are not expected to agree on the major issue on the agenda of the summit - to determine the framework of cooperation in cutting greenhouse gas emissions that are considered as a factor of global climate changes. Due to contradictions between the summiteers no final document of the summit will likely contain the concrete year that should be considered a starting point in cutting greenhouse gas emissions, a source in the Japanese government said on Wednesday.
The foresaid contradictions put into question Japan's possibilities to initiate the creation of a procedure of cooperation in the struggle with global warming taking advantage of the country's G8 rotating presidency. For this purpose along with the G8 leaders another eight leaders of the countries that issue hazardous emissions, including India, China, Mexico and the South African Republic, will meet on the Japanese island of Hokkaido on July 7-9.
Last January at the World Economic Forum in Davos Japanese Prime
Minister Yasuo Fukuda offered to change the starting point from 1990 set in the Kyoto Protocol to 2000 and a later date. The Kyoto Protocol binds the highly industrialized countries to cut hazardous emissions to 5-6 percent of the level observed 18 years ago by the end of 2012. The Japanese government, which has not met requirements of the Kyoto Protocol yet, explained the need for a revision of the document by the fact that the current rules do not reflect the efforts of the signatories attempting to cut hazardous emissions as a result of the power preservation.
However, European countries oppose this variant, because 1990 is
advantageous for them, as less industrially developed Eastern European
countries joined the EU after 1990. As a result the general European quota for hazardous emissions increased. Europe offers under a medium-term program to cut hazardous emissions by 20 percent by 2020 as compared with the 1990 level. Japan agreed on 14 percent, but given 2005 will be named the starting year. The Untied States and Russia support Japan's position, but Germany, France and Italy oppose it emphatically.
The foresaid contradictions put into question Japan's possibilities to initiate the creation of a procedure of cooperation in the struggle with global warming taking advantage of the country's G8 rotating presidency. For this purpose along with the G8 leaders another eight leaders of the countries that issue hazardous emissions, including India, China, Mexico and the South African Republic, will meet on the Japanese island of Hokkaido on July 7-9.
Last January at the World Economic Forum in Davos Japanese Prime
Minister Yasuo Fukuda offered to change the starting point from 1990 set in the Kyoto Protocol to 2000 and a later date. The Kyoto Protocol binds the highly industrialized countries to cut hazardous emissions to 5-6 percent of the level observed 18 years ago by the end of 2012. The Japanese government, which has not met requirements of the Kyoto Protocol yet, explained the need for a revision of the document by the fact that the current rules do not reflect the efforts of the signatories attempting to cut hazardous emissions as a result of the power preservation.
However, European countries oppose this variant, because 1990 is
advantageous for them, as less industrially developed Eastern European
countries joined the EU after 1990. As a result the general European quota for hazardous emissions increased. Europe offers under a medium-term program to cut hazardous emissions by 20 percent by 2020 as compared with the 1990 level. Japan agreed on 14 percent, but given 2005 will be named the starting year. The Untied States and Russia support Japan's position, but Germany, France and Italy oppose it emphatically.
