New Scientist: Timing is everything in politics, but evidently nobody told Katsuya Okada. Japan's deputy prime minister picked an unfortunate time to scale back on planned emissions cuts, given that carbon dioxide levels over parts of Japan just hit an all-time high (see "Carbon dioxide levels reach a new milestone"). In 2009, then prime minister Yukio Hatoyama promised that Japan would cut emissions by 25 per cent below 1990 levels by 2020. But on 30 May, Okada told journalists that those plans may have to be...
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