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• Ecology (Japan)

  Japan Ditches Pledge To Lower Emissions In Midst Of U.N. Climate Talks

  15 November 2013, by PHILLIPS Ari

  With the 19^th United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change underway, Japan, the world’s fifth-largest greenhouse gas emitter and third-biggest economy, made unwelcome headlines by announcing that its slashing its 2020 greenhouse gas emissions reductions target from 25 percent to just (…)

• Ecology (Japan)

  Sparrow numbers plummeting in Japan as well

  18 October 2011, by YONEYAMA Masahiro

  Sparrows, perhaps the most familiar of all wild birds, are a vanishing species.
  Sparrow populations in Japan are plummeting, just as they are in Europe.
  Quite why remains something of a mystery, but researchers point to urban sprawl and modern styles of architecture that have deprived the (…)

• Ecology (Japan)

  Japanese NGOs’ statement on Waste issues of FTAs

  13 February 2007, by Movements (Japan)

  The Honorable Shinzo Abe, Prime Minister of Japan The Honorable Taro Aso, Minister for Foreign Affairs The Honorable Masatoshi Wakabayashi, Minister of the Environment The Honorable Akira Amari, Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry February 11, 2007 Japanese Citizen Groups Urge the (…)