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...years. Japanese media are also reporting that Abe and President George W. Bush will set a goal to cut half the world's greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. Tokyo hasn't confirmed the report, but Japanese officials have made it clear that the Abe intends to go green in Washington...
...Though he's never been a vocal green, Abe seems to have seized on global warming as way for Japan to express its power in a soft way, moving the focus to the future rather than the country's controversial past. There is "a mind shift that it is politically wise to take the leadership on environmental issues," says Hye Sook Park, a professor of environmental geography at Japan's Mie University...
...Green diplomacy has already borne some fruit: When Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao came to Tokyo earlier this month - the first visit to Japan by a Chinese leader in nearly seven years - the two sides kept to a minimum discussion of the painful shared history that had aggravated tensions between them, instead trumpeting plans to cooperate on the environment. Few concrete details emerged from the meetings, although a normally truculent Beijing did agree for the first time to actively discuss what should happen after Kyoto. But the summit's amicability showed that environment could provide the basis for safe diplomacy...
...Piaf sang about them and, most recently, Am?lie did her shopping on them. But icon of Paris though the centuries-old cobblestones of Montmartre may be, they are being removed as part of a council project aimed at turn this historic quarter of Paris into the city's largest "Green Village." To make way for wider sidewalks, cycle lanes and new scooter parks, diggers have torn up chunks of some of Montmartre's most famous thoroughfares, unsentimentally replacing them with uniform layers of tarmac...
...Green Village is an essential project that will reduce pollution and make Montmartre more family-friendly," says Sylvain Garel, a local deputy of the Green Party and president of the Montmartre Council, which is overseeing the roadworks. "There's no question that this will benefit everyone in the area." Residents of the bustling Rue Lepic, with its recently de-cobbled square, aren't so convinced...