Minister says 7% CO2 cut for 2020 'not ambitious enough'

Minister says 7% CO2 cut for 2020 'not ambitious enough'

TOKYO, Japan - Environment Minister Tetsuo Saito speaks in an interview with Kyodo News at the Environment Ministry in Tokyo on June 3. Saito said he believes a plan to slash Japan's greenhouse gas emissions by 7 percent by 2020 from 1990 levels is ''not ambitious enough'' and that the nation should be able to achieve a 15 percent cut.

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