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Japan waits on US for CO2 targets By Roger Harrabin Environment analyst, BBC News Japan will wait for the next president before negotiating Japan says that it will not negotiate new targets on CO2 emissions until it sees what the new US President has to offer on climate change. A senior Japanese official also told the BBC his country would continue to try to re-negotiate the baseline date against which CO2 targets are measured. Japan’s emissions are more than 6% above the 1990 Kyoto Protocol baseline. World leaders are starting the three-day G8 summit in Toyako, on Japan's northern Hokkaido island. Mr Jun Arima, chief negotiator for the powerful industry ministry METI, promised that Japan would meet its promised 6% CO2 cut by purchasing pollution credits from developing countries. He also said Japan was hopeful of gathering support at the G8 for its plan for sectoral efficiency targets for industry. He said the UK had been supportive of the idea, which would oblige the major indust...

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