FACTBOX-Climate change high on G8 agenda in Japan (AlertNet)

2 July 2008, 9:04 pm

Source: Reuters (For more G8 summit stories, click on [G7/G8]) July 3 (Reuters) - Climate change will be high on the agenda when Group of Eight (G8) leaders meet in Hokkaido, northern Japan, for a July 7-9 summit ...... read more

Bush Addresses Focus Of Final G8 Summit (Washington Post)

2 July 2008, 8:51 pm

BUSH: Good morning. Next week I'm going to travel to Japan for the eighth and final G-8 summit of my presidency. In recent summits, G-8 countries have made pledges to help developing nations address challenges from health care to education to corruption. Now, we need to show the world that the G...... read more

G8 Leaders Head For Japan With Global Economy Under Threat (INO News)

2 July 2008, 8:50 pm

TOKYO (AFP)--Leaders of the world's Group of Eight leading nations meet next week in Japan aiming to find ways to stimulate a global economy rattled by soaring oil and food prices.... read more

Japan to Boost Spending on China, India Clean-Energy Projects (Bloomberg.com)

2 July 2008, 8:49 pm

July 3 (Bloomberg) -- Japan will increase yen loans and investment in clean-energy technology to help cut greenhouse emissions in China and India, Asia's two economic powerhouses.... read more

Report: Turkey to join Kyoto Protocol (People's Daily)

2 July 2008, 5:13 pm

Turkish Parliamentary Foreign Affairs Commission has adopted a bill to ratify Kyoto Protocol, a UN-led global climate pact on cutting greenhouse gas emissions, the semi-official Anatolia news agency reported on Wednesday. The bill, ...... read more

Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion ジャパントゥデイ:日本のニュースを英語で読む (Japan Today)

2 July 2008, 3:09 pm

A total of nine local authorities in Japan said they are willing to consider the idea of calling on stores to voluntarily end their round-the-clock operations in order to fight global warming, according to the results of a Kyodo News survey compiled by Wednesday.... read more

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