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TOKYO — Japan’s presumptive prime minister breathed new life Monday into efforts to curb global warming, standing by a campaign pledge to cut the nation’s greenhouse- gas emissions by 25 percent in the next 10 years from 1990 levels — a target that environmentalists said puts Japan at the forefront of the fight against climate change.
Nonetheless, Yukio Hatoyama said his pledge was contingent on similarly ambitious goals promised by other major polluters. That could become a major obstacle because of a deadlock between industrialized and emerging economies over who should bear the most responsibility for emission cuts.
