Japan needs to move beyond simply showing leadership and come up with ambitious targets on cutting its carbon gas emissions, U.N. climate chief Yvo de Boer said Friday.
Six options for the nation’s midterm emission cuts, ranging from a 7 percent increase to a 25 percent reduction by 2020 compared with 1990 levels, were unveiled Thursday by a study team under Prime Minister Taro Aso.
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