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하토야마의 2020년까지 25퍼센트 온실가스 감축 선언을 지지하세요!

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Support Hatoyama's pledge to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 25% by 2020!

No world leader of the developed countries has shown such leadership in the fight against climate change until now. Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama has taken the unprecedented step in pledging to cut greenhouse gas emissions 25% from 1990 levels by 2020. He must urge President Obama when they meet on September 23 at the United Nations to follow him by setting ambitious targets in greenhouse gas emissions' cuts.

During LDP's reign, the emissions cut target was a mere 8%, which industry and business opposed stating 4% was all they would accept, claiming it was the ‘most rational goal' in terms of viability and the financial burden on consumers. Hatoyama shows he and his incoming governing party truly understand the cuts needed to make a difference by pledging to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 25% from 1990 levels by 2020.

Greenpeace has already proven scientifically, in the acclaimed ‘Energy Outlook' series, how Japan can achieve 25% cuts on greenhouse gas emissions from 1990 levels by 2020, without the use of nuclear power or carbon capture and storage. The report, states IPCC Chairman, Dr. R.K. Pachauri in the preface; “provides stimulating analysis on future scenarios of energy use, which focus on a range of technologies that are expected to emerge in the coming years and decades.”

Contrary to the opposition's claims, Hatoyama's pledge is achievable, the Energy [R]evolution not only offers us hope for a future but offers energy security, sustainable energy sources and jobs! We don't need to wait until tomorrow for the answers, we have them today - don't let industry take us back to the Stone Age!

The cost that future generations would bear far outweighs any burden we would suffer today if we allow industry to keep us chained to fossil fuels and nuclear power.

Please send your message by 12 noon, September 17, 2009 and Greenpeace will deliver your support to the new Prime Minister before he leaves for New York - watch this space!

Send your message now!

http://www.greenpeace.or.jp/campaign/enerevo/switch2/en/

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