Japan announced that it plans to reduce its emissions of polluting gases by 15% until 2020, compared with their 2005 level.
The Empire of the Rising Sun is the fifth bigger polluter of the planet. It was one of last major countries, with Russia, not to have announced any plan to reduce its pollution. Prime Minister Taro Aso finally did so on Wednesday. According to Mr. Aso, Japan's goal is bigger than Europe's and the United States's. Indeed Europe plants to reduce its emisions by 13% in 2020 compared with 2005, and Russia by 14%.
The European Union plans to reduce its emission by 20% or even 30% in 2020 compared with 1990. The United States are quite late on this issue. All they will be able to do is reducing their emissions by 14% in 2020 compared with 1990.
All these goals are announced six months before the Copenhague conference, which is supposed to redefine a global environmental policy after the Kyoto protocol.
Francois-Xavier Motte
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