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Hatoyama to send 'strong message' about global warming on U.S. visit+
TOKYO, Sept. 20 Kyodo -
Prior to his scheduled speech at a U.N. climate change summit in New York on
Tuesday, new Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama and other ministers agreed
Sunday that he should send a ''strong message'' to international society
regarding Tokyo's efforts to tackle global warming, Chief Cabinet Secretary
Hirofumi Hirano told reporters.
Hatoyama is expected to declare at the U.N. summit that Japan will aim to cut
greenhouse gas emissions by 25 percent by 2020 from 1990 levels and offer
energy-saving technologies and funds to developing nations under the ''Hatoyama
Initiative'' as part of his efforts to tackle global warming, according to a
government source.
The prime minister is scheduled to leave for the United States Monday evening
to attend U.N. meetings in New York and the Group of 20 financial summit in
Pittsburgh before returning to Japan on Saturday.
While Hatoyama will likely announce the ambitious 25 percent target, Hirano
also said, ''It is not something only Japan can deal with, Japan needs to
create a mechanism in which the United States, China and other major emitters
can discuss it on the same ground.''
Sunday's meeting was attended by Hatoyama and eight of his Cabinet members
including Deputy Prime Minister and strategy minister Naoto Kan, Foreign
Minister Katsuya Okada and Environment Minister Sakihito Ozawa, who are also
set to visit the United States next week.
In the speech, Hatoyama will likely stress that developing nations are hit
harder by effects of global warming such as drought and that industrialized
nations should have a heavier responsibility in reducing gas emissions.
By showing a strong commitment to supporting developing nations, the Hatoyama
government apparently seeks to take the lead in negotiations over shaping a new
international framework from 2013 to succeed the Kyoto Protocol.
Hatoyama already unveiled the 25 percent target in a climate change symposium
in Tokyo on Sept. 7, having won acclaim from the United Nations as well as
European nations.
Once officially declaring it at the international event, however, the
62-year-old new Japanese leader will likely come under pressure for drafting
concrete steps to realize the ambitious target.
More specifically, Hatoyama is expected to announce that Japan will actively
provide to developing countries such energy-saving technologies as highly
efficient power generation facilities, biofuel and fuel-efficient vehicles, the
source said.
But he is unlikely to give any specific figure on how much the Japanese
government will extend to developing nations.
In the speech, he is also expected to announce that global warming is a threat
to all humankind and not a minute cannot be wasted.
==Kyodo
2009-09-20 20:59:12
Prior to his scheduled speech at a U.N. climate change summit in New York on
Tuesday, new Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama and other ministers agreed
Sunday that he should send a ''strong message'' to international society
regarding Tokyo's efforts to tackle global warming, Chief Cabinet Secretary
Hirofumi Hirano told reporters.
Hatoyama is expected to declare at the U.N. summit that Japan will aim to cut
greenhouse gas emissions by 25 percent by 2020 from 1990 levels and offer
energy-saving technologies and funds to developing nations under the ''Hatoyama
Initiative'' as part of his efforts to tackle global warming, according to a
government source.
The prime minister is scheduled to leave for the United States Monday evening
to attend U.N. meetings in New York and the Group of 20 financial summit in
Pittsburgh before returning to Japan on Saturday.
While Hatoyama will likely announce the ambitious 25 percent target, Hirano
also said, ''It is not something only Japan can deal with, Japan needs to
create a mechanism in which the United States, China and other major emitters
can discuss it on the same ground.''
Sunday's meeting was attended by Hatoyama and eight of his Cabinet members
including Deputy Prime Minister and strategy minister Naoto Kan, Foreign
Minister Katsuya Okada and Environment Minister Sakihito Ozawa, who are also
set to visit the United States next week.
In the speech, Hatoyama will likely stress that developing nations are hit
harder by effects of global warming such as drought and that industrialized
nations should have a heavier responsibility in reducing gas emissions.
By showing a strong commitment to supporting developing nations, the Hatoyama
government apparently seeks to take the lead in negotiations over shaping a new
international framework from 2013 to succeed the Kyoto Protocol.
Hatoyama already unveiled the 25 percent target in a climate change symposium
in Tokyo on Sept. 7, having won acclaim from the United Nations as well as
European nations.
Once officially declaring it at the international event, however, the
62-year-old new Japanese leader will likely come under pressure for drafting
concrete steps to realize the ambitious target.
More specifically, Hatoyama is expected to announce that Japan will actively
provide to developing countries such energy-saving technologies as highly
efficient power generation facilities, biofuel and fuel-efficient vehicles, the
source said.
But he is unlikely to give any specific figure on how much the Japanese
government will extend to developing nations.
In the speech, he is also expected to announce that global warming is a threat
to all humankind and not a minute cannot be wasted.
==Kyodo
2009-09-20 20:59:12
