Incoming Japanese PM raises emissions targets to 25 per cent

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Demands from countries such as China that Japan takes tougher action on climate change appear to have had an effect

Japan's prime minister-elect Yukio Hatoyama appears to have heeded international calls and has revised his country's greenhouse gas emission targets upwards to a 25 per cent cut from 1990 levels by 2020....

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