(MENAFN- Qatar News Agency) kyo April 15 - Japan has surpassed the target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions that it pledged under the Kyoto Protocol on global warming Japan's Environment Ministry said. Environment Minister Nobuteru Ishihara said on Tuesday that Japan lowered emissions by a 5-year average of 8.4 percent through fiscal 2012 compared to 1990 levels. That's more than the 6-percent goal the country pledged under the Kyoto Protocol. Ishihara said the amount of carbon dioxide absorbed by forests is included in the reductions. The Kyoto Protocol mandates cuts in emissions of heat-trapping gases but only covers industrialized countries. A UN climate change panel said on Sunday in its latest report that countries must act faster to keep global warming below 2 degrees Celsius compared to pre-industrial figures Japan's (NHK World) website reported. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says that to achieve that target global emissions must be reduced by between 40 and 70 percent by 2050 from levels in 2010. Ishihara said the proposed figures are extremely tough. He said Japan has no other option but to vastly increase the ratio of energy produced by renewable sources and make thorough efforts to save energy.
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