Japan Greenhouse Gas Emissions Rose 4.2% on Recovering Economy
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Japan’s greenhouse gas emissions for the year ended March 2011 rose 4.2 percent as the economy recovered from the 2008 financial crisis, the Environment Ministry said today, exceeding a previous estimate.
The ministry had announced in December a preliminary figure of a 3.9 percent increase in emissions. Greenhouse gas output rose to 1.258 billion metric tons as record hot summer in some regions and a cold winter that followed contributed to higher power consumption, it said today.