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  • TOKYO (AFP) Feb 02, 2005
    A recovering economy has made it hard for one-third of Japanese industries to meet self-imposed targets in cutting carbon dioxide emissions to help Japan meet the UN Kyoto Protocol, reports said Wednesday.

    Eleven of Japan's 30 industries risk missing the goals, including steel, power generation, paper, rubber, electrical machinery and electronics and auto parts, the Mainichi and Nihon Keizai dailies said, citing a trade ministry survey.

    "Each industry has voluntarily set targets to achieve the reduction goals of the Kyoto Protocol but emissions by some industries cannot stop growing due mainly to an economic recovery," the Nihon Keizai daily said.

    The trade ministry will encourage the industries to step up efforts but it will be difficult for them to meet their international commitments, it said.

    The Mainichi said the ministry believed the industries would need to take additional measures allowed under the protocol, such as seeking emission "credits" in the developing world.

    The 1997 protocol reached in the historic western Japanese city is due to take effect on February 16 after being ratified by 30 industrialized countries.

    Australia and the United States have refused to follow suit, expressing fears for their industries under the agreement which targets reductions in carbon gas emissions by 2008-12.

    Japan must make a six percent reduction in such emissions from 1990 levels.

    Companies in industrialized countries can fund clean-technology projects in the developing world to earn credits, which can be offset against their own emission targets or sold on to someone else.

    Companies can also earn credits through a program among industrialized countries.




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