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Fukuda to announce emissions cut target for 2050 in June
TOKYO, May 10 KYODO
Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda plans to announce Japan's 2050 target for
cutting emissions of greenhouse gases in June ahead of July's Group of Eight
summit, the top government spokesman said Saturday.
The target will be announced as ''Fukuda's Vision,'' Chief Cabinet
Secretary Nobutaka Machimura said in a speech in Sapporo.
The government has apparently judged it necessary for Japan to set an
emissions reduction goal, even though it is for 40 years in the future, in
order to take the initiative at the summit as the host nation.
Climate change will be high on the agenda of the G-8 summit, which will
bring together the leaders of Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan,
the United States and Russia in the Lake Toya resort area of Hokkaido on July
7-9.
''The prime minister made a speech outlining measures to combat climate
change at the Davos meeting. Japan has yet to provide an answer on how it will
act in 2050,'' Machimura said, referring to a meeting held by the World
Economic Forum in the Swiss resort in January.
''We are making preparations so that the premier can announce a specific
reduction goal for 2050 in early or mid-June,'' he said.
==Kyodo
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