Japan
The government is gearing up a national drive to cut greenhouse gas emissions in line with the agreement reached at the international climate-change conference at Kyoto in December last year.
Japan's Environment Agency ( ea ) and the ministry of international trade and industry ( miti ) are working separately on bills designed to encourage businesses to join the campaign against global warming. But the bills mainly target the factories, auto and power plants and include no measure to combat the ever-increasing emissions from the houses and offices.
The ea is drafting a bill that
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