Japan Greenhouse Gas

President Joe Biden on Thursday doubled US ambitions on slashing greenhouse gas emissions, leading Japan and Canada at a summit in making new commitments that bring the world closer to limiting the worst climate change.

The world's big emitting countries, including China, India, Russia and Japan need to "really step up" and begin to lower greenhouse gas emissions, US Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry has said as he called on all nations to raise their ambition to fight against climate change.

Japan said today that it will slash its greenhouse gas emissions by 26 per cent by 2030 from 2013 levels and would submit the plan to the United Nations later in the day as its contribution to a global summit on climate change in Paris in November.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Tuesday he would pledge a 26 per cent cut in the country's greenhouse gas emissions, ahead of a global summit on climate change this year.

A promise by Japan on Sunday to give up to $1.5 billion to a UN fund to help poor nations cope with global warming puts the fund within sight of a $10 billion goal and brightens prospects for a UN climate pact next year.

World powers are running out of time to slash their use of high-polluting fossil fuels and stay below agreed limits on global warming, a draft United Nations (UN) study to be approved this week shows.

Global warming poses a mounting threat to the health, economic prospects, and food and water sources of billions of people, a report by top scientists said, in a call for urgent action to counter the effects of carbon emissions.

Billions of people could be living in regions where temperatures are hotter than their historical ranges by mid-century, creating a "new normal" that could force profound changes on nature and society, scientists said on Wednesday.

Kyoto Protocol is the "make or break" issue for UN climate talks here, Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh said, as he pointed not only Japan but many other countries are opposed to continuation of the treaty that legally binds industrialised nations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

President Joe Biden on Thursday doubled US ambitions on slashing greenhouse gas emissions, leading Japan and Canada at a summit in making new commitments that bring the world closer to limiting the worst climate change.

The world's big emitting countries, including China, India, Russia and Japan need to "really step up" and begin to lower greenhouse gas emissions, US Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry has said as he called on all nations to raise their ambition to fight against climate change.

Japan said today that it will slash its greenhouse gas emissions by 26 per cent by 2030 from 2013 levels and would submit the plan to the United Nations later in the day as its contribution to a global summit on climate change in Paris in November.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Tuesday he would pledge a 26 per cent cut in the country's greenhouse gas emissions, ahead of a global summit on climate change this year.

A promise by Japan on Sunday to give up to $1.5 billion to a UN fund to help poor nations cope with global warming puts the fund within sight of a $10 billion goal and brightens prospects for a UN climate pact next year.

World powers are running out of time to slash their use of high-polluting fossil fuels and stay below agreed limits on global warming, a draft United Nations (UN) study to be approved this week shows.

Global warming poses a mounting threat to the health, economic prospects, and food and water sources of billions of people, a report by top scientists said, in a call for urgent action to counter the effects of carbon emissions.

Billions of people could be living in regions where temperatures are hotter than their historical ranges by mid-century, creating a "new normal" that could force profound changes on nature and society, scientists said on Wednesday.

Kyoto Protocol is the "make or break" issue for UN climate talks here, Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh said, as he pointed not only Japan but many other countries are opposed to continuation of the treaty that legally binds industrialised nations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.