Japan sets new greenhouse gas emissions reduction target

Japan sets new greenhouse gas emissions reduction target

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Environment Minister Nobuteru Ishihara holds a press conference at the ministry in Tokyo on Nov. 15, 2013, on a new greenhouse gas emission reduction target. The Japanese government decided the same day to aim at a 3.8 percent reduction from fiscal 2005 in its greenhouse gas emissions target for fiscal 2020, assuming the country's nuclear power plants remain offline. The new target represents an increase of about 3 percent from the Kyoto Protocol base year of fiscal 1990.

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