OSAKA -- With a United Nations conference on global warming just around the corner, a citizen's group is calling for existing energy-saving technologies to be more widely used to reduce carbon dioxide emissions.
If comprehensive energy-saving measures are carried out in all sectors of society through economic incentives and regulatory measures, Japan will be able to achieve a 9 percent cut in carbon dioxide emissions from the 1990 level by 2010, exceeding its target of 6 percent, the group said in a report.
"The technologies assumed to calculate this are already available," said Yoichi Mizutani, an associate professor of Shizuoka University and director of the Citizens' Alliance for Saving the Atmosphere and the Earth.