Efforts to CO2 Reduction Made by Other Countries and Japan's Responses.

Specific consequences for the Kyoto Protocol were adopted at the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 7) held in Morocco from October to November 2001. This will lead to establishing sets of rules for the implementation of the Kyoto Protocol and promote the ratification of the Kyoto Protocol in developed countries. Japan began full-scale preparations for the Kyoto Protocol, aiming at ratification taking place in 2002 during the next Ordinary Diet session. We will aim to adjust or establish domestic structures for the ratification of the Kyoto Protocol.This report provides you for the outline of the Kyoto Protocol, the agreement by COP 7, the considerations on domestic measures made by Central Environment Council together with the report on other countries' situations.