Japan's new government seeks deeper cuts in greenhouse gases

Tokyo - Japan's premier-designate said Monday that his incoming government wants to make deeper cuts in the country's emissions of greenhouse gases. Yukio Hatoyama, who is slated to become the next prime minister after his Democratic Party of Japan won last week's parliamentary election, said the party wants emissions cuts of 25 per cent by 2020 from 1990's levels. That goal compares with an 8-per-cent cut envisioned within the same timeframe by outgoing Prime Minister Taro Aso of the Liberal Democratic Party.

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