Mutsuyoshi Nishimura, a former special advisor on climate change to Japan’s Cabinet and a previous ambassador to UN Climate Change Negotiations, says that the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) — widely expected to win an overwhelming majority of seats in the House of Representatives in a snap 14 December election recently called by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe — will likely set hard targets this spring and make a public announcement at some point in the summer of 2015.
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