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.
