Missed targets
AS THE host of the next meeting of the ON Convention on Climate Change, which is scheduled to be held in December in Kyoto, Japan is making last-ditch attempts to finish its homework on global warming. In the previous con- vention meetings, rich nations had agreed to start a series of projects to help developing countries cut their green- house gas emissions or soak up the gases from the atmosphere.
Japan has lined up I I projects but only one of them has been agreed with a developing country partner. The others are still at the negotiation stage. All projects which are.to be acknowledged at the Ky Y, 0 meeting had, to be submitted by the end of June:
According to fatsunori Suzuki, director of the Japanese Environment Agency's Office of International Strategy on Climate Change, many of the partner countries are having second thoughts. "They suspect that industrialised nations could use these projects as an excuse for not implementing global warming countermeasures of their own," he says. Inclustrialised countries have agreed to cut emissions to 1990 levels by AD 2000.
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