A top Japanese delegate attending the climate meeting at
Honolulu in Hawaii said Wednesday that Japan appreciates China's
engagement in the climate talks under UN framework and the two
neighboring nations have great potential to cooperate on related
issues.
"Officials from the two countries are working closely on the
issue, and I believe there is a lot of potential in cooperation and
coordination between the two sides in order to have a new climate
framework after 2012, " Koji Tsuruoka, a director-general from
Japan's foreign ministry told Xinhua on the sideline of the 2nd
major economies meeting on energy security and climate change.
Both China and Japan are working very closely on a number of
joint climate and environment projects, he noted.
At the international level, leaders of the two countries are
committed to cooperation and coordination in the international
negotiations about the new arrangement of reduction of greenhouse
gas emission when the Kyoto Protocol expires in 2012.
During Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda's visit to China
last month, the two countries have reached two cooperation
agreements on the climate change technologies and energy and
environment, Tsuruoka noted.
(Xinhua News Agency January 31, 2008)
