Earlier this month, Japan's incoming prime minister vowed to aim for a 25% reduction in greenhouse gasses by 2020. Is this an ambitious goal or could Japan actually be making progress? Yukio Hatoyama believes that this is the way of the future: "Japan's change in government will bring a major shift to our climate change policies, through international negotiations for the future of human society, and I want to begin in a way that is said to have made a major contribution."
Whether too ambitious or not, let us hope that more countries will be setting goals like this is the near future.
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Due to the recession, world wide levels of carbon dioxide have dropped by 2 1/2 %. Now if we can all start writing to Congress and push for climate legislation...
ReplyDeleteIt is a good thing that such an important country in the world is finally taking a stand to end global warming, and taking responsibility for their actions. To have such an industrialized country like Japan, start thinking about reducing greenhouse gases, will help a great deal to the beginning of the end to global warming. Maybe they could even convince neighboring China to stop emitting so much toxins into the atmosphere.
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