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Worried Japanese Businesses Lash Out against Climate Deal
Mount Fuji. Photo by nuttycam Flickr Japan signed the Kyoto Protocol to prevent climate change and global warming in 2002, and committed to a 6% reduction in emissions of greenhouse gases in the first commitment period 1990-2012. Now a new international framework for a continuation of the Kyoto agreement needs to be negotiated and ratified and for more stringent emissions reductions in light of the indications of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).In Japan a newspaper advertisement by Japanese business and industry federations was recently published concerning the emissions cuts. Alexandru Luta, Master student at the Department of Political Science, University of Helsinki, discusses the message of the advertisement
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The website of the APEC Virtual Center for Environmental Technology Exchange. APEC assists municipalities, corporations and environment related institutions in the Asia-Pacific region to share environmental information via the Internet. The APEC-VC home page is designed and constructed to provide ac
http://www.apec-vc.or.jp/index_e.asp
Keywords: China, East Asia, Environment, In Focus, In Focus 2008, In Focus 2008 Week 32, In Focus 2009, In Focus 2009 Week 16, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, Southeast Asia, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam,
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This website provides information about the Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate (AP6) including; the vision, charter and structure; links to relevant websites and publications, information on task force action plans and projects and news and media articles. The AP6 brings toget
http://www.ap6.gov.au/
Keywords: China, Climatology, East Asia, Environment, In Focus, In Focus 2007, In Focus 2007 Week 51, In Focus 2008, In Focus 2008 Week 32, In Focus 2009, In Focus 2009 Week 16, India, Japan, South Asia, South Korea,
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Library website of the National Diet, the legislative organ of Japan and the bi-camerial parliament. Contains databases of minutes of the diet, laws, legislations and bills, parliamentary documents and official publications and historical material.
http://www.ndl.go.jp/en/index.html
Keywords: East Asia, General references, Government, In Focus, In Focus 2009, In Focus 2009 Week 16, Japan, Libraries, Politics and society,
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Nippon Keidanren (Japan Business Federation) is a comprehensive economic organization born in May 2002 by amalgamation of Keidanren (Japan Federation of Economic Organizations) and Nikkeiren (Japan Federation of Employers' Associations). Its membership of 1,662 is comprised of 1,343 companies, 130 i
http://www.keidanren.or.jp/
Keywords: Business enterprises, Business. Management, East Asia, In Focus, In Focus 2009, In Focus 2009 Week 16, Japan,
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Links to the cabinets, news, archives
http://www.kantei.go.jp/foreign/index-e.html
Keywords: East Asia, Government, In Focus, In Focus 2009, In Focus 2009 Week 16, Japan, Politics and society,
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The Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), established by an initiative of the Japanese Government in 1998, is a research institute that conducts pragmatic and innovative strategic policy research to support sustainable development in the Asia-Pacific region-a region experiencing rapi
http://www.iges.or.jp/en/index.html
Keywords: Development, Development. Poverty, East Asia, Environment, In Focus, In Focus 2008, In Focus 2008 Week 32, In Focus 2009, In Focus 2009 Week 16, Japan, Sustainable development,
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CEPIS provides electronic access to environmental data and information from a country perspective. Content: General Information Environmental Governance State of the Environment Themes Indicators Systems and Networks Projects Environmental management
http://countryprofiles.unep.org/profiles/JP
Keywords: East Asia, Environment, In Focus, In Focus 2009, In Focus 2009 Week 16, Japan,
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