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...their families. Once Japanese people embrace an idea, they do so wholeheartedly. Environmental consciousness is no exception. Over the past 34 years, Japan has renewed a 25-yen ($0.25) per liter gasoline tax - anathema in the U.S. - four times. A decade after hosting the conference that led to the Kyoto Protocol, Japan will host the G-8 Summit on Hokkaido this year, which will focus on green issues...
...difficult every day. (A commentary in the April 3 edition of Nature argued that the technological changes needed to decarbonize energy could be much harder than we thought; meanwhile, over in Bangkok, diplomats at the U.N. climate conference last week made little progress on hammering out the successor to Kyoto.) If there is money to be spent on preparing the world for the health impacts of climate change, the priority should be adapting our public health system to a warmer world, versus spending on carbon mitigation. Global warming to some degree will be inevitable - but human suffering needn...
...more finely-tuned implementation program is expected to strengthen the E.U.'s bargaining position ahead of the final negotiations on a successor to the Kyoto agreement, which are to be finalized at a summit in Copenhagen next December. E.U. leaders added that they could even offer a 30% cut in emissions by 2020 if a workable international agreement is reached...
Over the past decade, the European Union has shown it can talk the talk on cutting greenhouse gas emissions, as it firmly and loudly backed the Kyoto Accord. But it now needs to show it can walk the walk, since the Union is still lagging badly in achieving its stated goal of a 20% cut in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 compared with 1990 levels. On Friday, E.U. leaders ended their two-day Brussels summit by throwing their weight behind a more precise timetable for those goals. Still, not everyone is convinced they showed enough backbone to ensure that they...
...nonetheless, the trend appears to be in the direction of economic sacrifice for the sake of the environment. Slovenia's Jan'a said that the E.U. had a responsibility to take the lead in the talks on an accord for the post-Kyoto period after 2012. "By doing this we made a huge step forward," he said. "We are convinced that the costs of these measures will be much lower than...