{"id":1012,"date":"2005-04-03T19:26:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-03T19:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sustainablog.greenoptions.com\/2005\/04\/03\/japan-taking-the-lead-in-sustainable-development\/"},"modified":"2005-04-03T19:26:00","modified_gmt":"2005-04-03T19:26:00","slug":"japan-taking-the-lead-in-sustainable-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/japan-taking-the-lead-in-sustainable-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan Taking the Lead in Sustainable Development"},"content":{"rendered":"
From Channel NewsAsia via Eco-Portal, news<\/a> of rapid Japanese strides in sustainable development on both the public and private fronts:<\/p>\n Japanese industry is responding both to the pressures from the Kyoto Protocol, the landmark ecological treaty named for Japan’s former capital, and to new anti-pollution directives in the European Union, a key market.<\/p>\n The Kyoto treaty, which went into effect on February, obliges Japan to slash its greenhouse gas emission six percent by 2008-2012 from the 1990 level.<\/p>\n The government is determined to comply and has publicly mulled imposing taxes to whip the world’s second-largest economy into shape. But industry opposes the taxes — and some companies have already gone ahead on their own to help Japan go green. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n So, what’s that old maxim about history repeating itself…?<\/p>\n Technorati tags: sustainable development<\/a>, Japan<\/a><\/p>\n