Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama has announced targeted cuts in greenhouse gas emissions that place Japan far ahead of other developed countries at the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. The challenge for Hatoyama and his party after COP15, according to George Washington University Professor Llewelyn Hughes, will be to maintain domestic consensus amid far-reaching government reform and rising costs to industries and consumers.
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Climate Change and Japan’s Post-Copenhagen Challenge
Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama has announced targeted cuts in greenhouse gas emissions that place Japan far ahead of other developed countries at the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. The challenge for Hatoyama and his party after COP15, according to George Washington University Professor Llewelyn Hughes, will be to maintain domestic consensus amid far-reaching government reform and rising costs to industries and consumers.