TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan, the world's fifth-biggest emitter of greenhouse gases, wants to design an emissions trading scheme as soon as possible to help it fight climate change after the Kyoto protocol expires in 2012, the environment minister said on Tuesday.
Ichiro Kamoshita also said Japan would consider extra regulatory steps such as an environment tax if there was a danger the country would miss its Kyoto target of cutting emissions by 6 percent from 1990 levels over the 2008-2012 period.
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