Japan's new prime minister, Yukio Hatoyama, has pledged to target a 25 percent cut in greenhouse gas emissions from 1990 levels by 2020, despite opposition from industry, which says the goal will hurt the economy.
The target, more ambitious than the previous government's, is premised on a deal on goals being agreed by major nations.
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