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Conservation and environmental news & publications: Japan

Rising CO2 levels are due to burning of fossil fuels, such as for electricity at this coal-fired power plant in Australia.

03 Jul 2008
G8 nations lagging in climate change race
None of the leading industrialized nations are currently on target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions enough to avoid the threshold level for unacceptable risk of catastrophic climate change, according to new research into national policies and performance.
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Massive CO2 emissions: The power sector is the biggest climate polluter. Tough caps on CO2 under a strong ETS can trigger a switch from dirty coal power to clean and efficient alternatives.

07 Apr 2008
EU carbon market sets up another round of windfall profits for dirtiest power generators
Polluting electricity generators in Europe are set to reap another round of extraordinary windfall profits from the carbon trading scheme meant to curb their carbon emissions, a new report revealed today.
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Paper buyers are being asked to consider withholding support for industrial-scale assaults on Sumatra's lowland peat forests that are linked to industrial nation levels of carbon emissions

25 Mar 2008
APP irregularities threaten massive climate and tiger impact
Pekanbaru, INDONESIA – One of the world’s biggest carbon stores and a key tiger habitat are threatened by a new logging road in Riau Province, Sumatra, according to an investigative report published today.

An absence of permits and other irregularities suggest that the new road cutting into Kampar peninsula is likely to be illegal, says Riau’s Eyes on the Forest group, a coalition of local NGO network Jikalahari, Walhi Riau, and WWF-Indonesia. » Read more

Emissions of greenhouse gas from EU countries might soon be reduced drastically

13 Mar 2008
Emission trading can boost Japan’s economy and credibility as a global leader - WWF
A new WWF report shows how setting up a domestic emissions trading scheme (ETS) could turn Japan into a credible leader in the global fight against climate change and bring massive benefits for the country’s flagging economy. » Read more

13 Mar 2008
Decarbonizing Japan - Summary of proposal for emission trading scheme
SUMMARY VERSION
WWF report showing how setting up a domestic emissions trading scheme (ETS) could turn Japan into a credible leader in the global fight against climate change and bring massive benefits for the country’s flagging economy.
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Severely degraded mangroves due to rising sea levels and clearing for commercial shrimp and salt farms, Thailand. These factors have contributed greatly to the destruction of large tracts of coastal mangroves in the country.

05 Mar 2008
This time, world should heed OECD call to action on environment
Paris: The OECD’s Environment Outlook to 2030, issued today, was welcomed by WWF as yet another compelling argument that the costs of inaction on the environment will far exceed the costs of action.

The OECD Outlook is the latest - and at 520 pages one of the weightiest - in a run of reports from prominent economic institutions and commissions calling on governments and international institutions to face up to the seriousness and immediacy of global environmental problems. » Read more

05 Mar 2008
Lethal whale "research" programmes produce meat, not answers: WWF

Japan would do better whale research by not killing whales, said WWF on the eve of a key International Whaling Commission planning meeting.

Today, much more plentiful and reliable information is available using the many better new ways of collecting whale data rather than much the same old ways of killing them.

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This new community allows young people to tell the world why they care about the environment and why it should be protected.

04 Mar 2008
A new platform to start changing the world
Forget Facebook, MySpace or You Tube: here comes connect2earth, a new online community where young people can upload videos, pictures and comments about the environment.

On www.connect2earth.org, users and visitors will be able to write, speak, illustrate and video present their concerns on subjects important to them, and share environmental ideas and solutions.
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Draining, denuding and denying habitat for acacia plantations in Riau. Decomposing peat soils then become major contributors to global climate change

26 Feb 2008
Pulp and palm oil the villains in Sumatra's global climate impact and local elephant losses
Pekanbaru, Sumatra: Turning just one Sumatran province's forests and peat swamps into pulpwood and palm oil plantations is generating more annual greenhouse gas emissions than the Netherlands and rapidly driving the province's elephants into extinction, a new study by WWF and partners has found. » Read more

Business setting an example : Sony chair and CEO Sir Howard Stringer presents The Tokyo Declaration to WWF International Director-General James Leape.

16 Feb 2008
WWF Climate Savers Tokyo Summit, February 2008 - “Not a business-as-usual conference”
By Tony Hare

It was Sony CEO, Sir Howard Stringer, who best set the tone at the WWF Climate Savers Tokyo Summit in February, saying it was not “a business-as-usual conference”.
It wasn’t business as usual – it was business as innovator; business as visionary; business as Climate Saver.
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