Posted on 11/12/2013 6:06:52 PM PST by TexGrill
Japan's public and private sectors will supply an aid package worth US$16 billion over three years to help developing nations cut greenhouse-gas emissions, a report said on Tuesday, as climate talks get underway in Warsaw. TOKYO: Japan's public and private sectors will supply an aid package worth US$16 billion over three years to help developing nations cut greenhouse-gas emissions, a report said on Tuesday, as climate talks get underway in Warsaw.
The contribution would account for over 40 per cent of the US$35 billion that developing nations were expected to ask for to battle climate change, Japan's leading Nikkei business daily reported, without citing sources.
It added that Japan's contribution was expected to be approved by Tokyo on Friday and would then be announced at the UN conference in Poland, which started on Monday.
The Nikkei report offered few specific details but said the package would include supplying so-called green technologies developed by Japanese firms including offshore wind turbines, fuel-cell vehicles and high-tech housing insulation, the Nikkei report said.
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Australia says, “Go directly to hell.”
And they're worried about global warming???????? WOW!
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