Japan business lobby to oppose climate target: report [View All]

Source: Reuters


TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's biggest business group is set to lobby against greenhouse gas emissions targets pledged by the new ruling party ahead of an international climate conference, a Japanese newspaper said on Thursday.
Business lobby Keidanren is keen to dissuade incoming Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama from referring to a midterm target of 25 percent cuts at a U.N. climate change conference in New York on September 22, the Yomiuri newspaper said.

"It will be taken as a commitment and will put Japan in a disadvantageous position," the paper quoted a senior Keidanren official as saying.

A Keidanren spokesman declined to comment on the report.


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