Japanese
Environment
Minister
Ryu
Matsumoto
told
delgates
that
any
new
global
treaty
for
reducing
greenhouse
gas
emissions
must
be
anchored
on
last
year's
Copenhagen
Accord,
not
the
1997
Kyoto
Protocol
which
expires
in
2012.
Japan
will
not
agree
to
a
second
commitment
period,
he
says,
although
it
will
maintain
the
spirit
of
the
treaty..
“Japan
is
really
stalling
progress,”
says
David
Turnbull,
executive
director
of
Climate
Action
Network
International.
While
not
all
items
must
be
agreed
upon
in
Cancún,
some
progress
should
be
made
for
future
negotiations
in
Durban
at
COP17,
says…
