Japan to hold major climate change meeting

0 Comments | AFP, May, 2007

TOKYO (AFP) — Japan will next year host a major conference on climate change bringing together the world's biggest greenhouse gas producers and energy consumers, officials said Friday.

The meeting will gather environment and energy ministers from 20 nations in Chiba prefecture just east of Tokyo for talks on climate change and clean energy, an official at the environment ministry said.

The ministry did not give the exact date or location.

It will be the fourth such meeting after Britain's initiative during the 2005 Group of Eight summit of developed nations in Gleneagles, Scotland.

Japan will hold next year's summit of G8 leaders in the northern town of Toyako, a pristine winter resort chosen in part to highlight the fight against global warming....