Conservation and environmental news & publications: Japan
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New emissions goal could make Japan climate leader
WWF welcomes today’s announcement by incoming Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama to strengthen ...
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Norway, Japan prop up whaling industry with taxpayer money
Gland, Switzerland: The governments of Norway and Japan are using taxpayer money to subsidize their ...
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Japan’s emissions target: far too little, far too late
Bonn, Germany - Japan’s announcement to reduce its emissions by only 8 percent by 2020 completely ...
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Japanese government misleads public with biased emission cuts figures - WWF
The Japanese government is misleading the public by presenting biased figures on Japan’s 2020 ...
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Too much to whalers and not enough to conservation in IWC proposals on Japanese whaling: WWF
Two “compromise packages” to end the deadlock on so-called scientific whaling are too much of a ...
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Another fisheries commission throws the science overboard
The Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) today over-rode the advice of its ...
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Pacific tuna face risky fisheries meeting
Yellowfin tuna and bigeye tuna fisheries in the western and central Pacific also face collapse if a ...
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Europe sits on damning bluefin tuna report
A European fisheries report demonstrating continuing widespread infringements by bluefin tuna ...
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Spain, Japan back bluefin tuna ban
Key fishing state Spain and key tuna market Japan joined with a majority of other countries to back ...
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Collapsing fishery gets tuna commission a blast from own review
Calling the management of the Mediterranean bluefin tuna fishery “an international disgrace”, a ...
