Japan will accept numerical targets to cut global warming emissions in a new climate change pact, reversing its stance which came under fire at this month's U.N.-led talks over the deal, a newspaper reported on Sunday.
The Mainichi Shimbun said Japan plans to present a proposal to divide nations into not only developed and developing countries, but also into a third group, that would include China and India, and set targets for each group.
Japan will also set up a five-year, $10 billion "finance mechanism" to back up developing nations' efforts to tackle global warming with low-interest loans, the paper said.
At talks in Bali this month, nations agreed on a two-year "roadmap" to adopt a new treaty to succeed the Kyoto Protocol, the main existing plan for combating global warming, beyond 2012.
But it did not include a European Union-backed emissions cut target, which Japan, along with the United States, had rejected to the criticism of environmentalists.
Mainichi said Japan, which will host next year's Group of Eight summit and has made the environment as its top agenda, decided to change its position after seeing the international outcry.
Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda will announce the decision at a gathering of world economic leaders in Davos, Switzerland, next month, and Japan will come up with the new targets in time for the G8 Summit, the paper added.
Japan is the world's fifth biggest emitter of greenhouse gases blamed for global warming, behind the United States, China, India and Russia.
1. numerical:It means something can be count, or can be showed by number.
2.reverse:This word means something is oppisite from other things.
3.stance:It means the place.
4.finance mechanism:This means a group which take care of the economic.
5.tackle:It means start to deal with something.
This article is about global warming, Japan want to do something to improve this .
Japan and many countries try to make a decision to improve this serious problem and they start to do this activity in these recent years,and I think it will work in the future.
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2008年1月1日 星期二
Fortune-seeker Nicolas Cage, lonely guy Will Smith and a pack of talking chipmunks ended Hollywood's year on a happy note. Cage's "National Treasure: Book of Secrets" was the No. 1 movie for a second weekend with $35.6 million, followed by "Alvin and the Chipmunks" with $30 million and Smith's "I Am Legend" with $27.5 million, according to studio estimates Sunday.
Those hits along with a solid crop of other holdovers and new movies that opened Christmas Day capped a year-end hot streak for Hollywood, whose business soared the last few weeks after a sluggish fall.
"It's being spread among three or four key movies, then another six or seven or eight below that, which is great," said Mark Zoradi, president of the motion-picture group at Disney, which released "National Treasure."
The top 12 movies took in $169.2 million, up 18 percent from the final weekend of 2006, when "Night at the Museum" led the box office with $36.8 million.
Hollywood will finish the year with record revenues of about $9.7 billion, up from the previous best of $9.45 billion in 2004, according to box-office tracker Media By Numbers.
Since prices are higher, the revenue represents actual admissions that were up only a fraction over 2006's and fell well short of modern Hollywood's record of 1.6 billion tickets sold in 2002.
With the holidays falling on Tuesday, many people have been taking five-day weekends, a boost for the movie business. Many students are off from school until next week, too.
"It's turned into like a two-week-long weekend for the movie industry," said Paul Dergarabedian, president of Media By Numbers.
"National Treasure," a sequel with Cage chasing historical clues to find a legendary city of gold, raised its domestic total to $124 million.
"Alvin and the Chipmunks," from 20th Century Fox, lifted its haul to $142.4 million. The Warner Bros. hit "I Am Legend," with Smith as a plague survivor who may be the last man alive, has climbed to $194.6 million.
Opening with huge numbers in limited release was Paramount Vantage's "There Will Be Blood," starring Daniel Day-Lewis in a tale of greed and violence during California's oil boom in the early 20th century. Playing at just two theaters in New York City and Los Angeles, "There Will Be Blood" took in $185,525 over the weekend and $309,703 since opening Wednesday. It expands to the top 10 markets Friday.
"There Will Be Blood" joins other films of violence and misdeeds such as "No Country for Old Men," "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street" and "Michael Clayton" aiming for top honors at the Academy Awards. All scored well in this month's Golden Globe nominations.
Oscar campaigner Harvey Weinstein, who delivered such best-picture winners as "Shakespeare in Love" and "Chicago" while at Miramax, said he hoped his feel-good drama "The Great Debaters" would stand out for awards consideration among all the blood-soaked fare. The Weinstein Co. release, distributed by MGM, took in $6.3 million over the weekend and $13.5 million since opening on Christmas.
A Golden Globe nominee for best drama, "The Great Debaters" features director and star Denzel Washington alongside Forest Whitaker in a story of a black debate team in the 1930s South.
"We're late, but we're hoping we can get that last best-picture spot" for the Oscars, Weinstein said. "The other movies are pretty bloody, but this is an uplifting American story."
Oscar nominations come out Jan. 22.
Other films that debuted on Christmas had solid weekends. "Alien vs. Predator: Requiem," a sci-fi horror sequel from 20th Century Fox, took in $10.05 million, raising its total since opening day to $26.9 million. Sony's Loch Ness monster fantasy "The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep" grossed $9.2 million and lifted its sum to $16.8 million.
Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Media By Numbers LLC. Final figures will be released Wednesday.
1. estimate: Equals calculate.
2. sluggish: It means slow.
This article is about the most famous movie in these recent months, they are very interresting.
Those hits along with a solid crop of other holdovers and new movies that opened Christmas Day capped a year-end hot streak for Hollywood, whose business soared the last few weeks after a sluggish fall.
"It's being spread among three or four key movies, then another six or seven or eight below that, which is great," said Mark Zoradi, president of the motion-picture group at Disney, which released "National Treasure."
The top 12 movies took in $169.2 million, up 18 percent from the final weekend of 2006, when "Night at the Museum" led the box office with $36.8 million.
Hollywood will finish the year with record revenues of about $9.7 billion, up from the previous best of $9.45 billion in 2004, according to box-office tracker Media By Numbers.
Since prices are higher, the revenue represents actual admissions that were up only a fraction over 2006's and fell well short of modern Hollywood's record of 1.6 billion tickets sold in 2002.
With the holidays falling on Tuesday, many people have been taking five-day weekends, a boost for the movie business. Many students are off from school until next week, too.
"It's turned into like a two-week-long weekend for the movie industry," said Paul Dergarabedian, president of Media By Numbers.
"National Treasure," a sequel with Cage chasing historical clues to find a legendary city of gold, raised its domestic total to $124 million.
"Alvin and the Chipmunks," from 20th Century Fox, lifted its haul to $142.4 million. The Warner Bros. hit "I Am Legend," with Smith as a plague survivor who may be the last man alive, has climbed to $194.6 million.
Opening with huge numbers in limited release was Paramount Vantage's "There Will Be Blood," starring Daniel Day-Lewis in a tale of greed and violence during California's oil boom in the early 20th century. Playing at just two theaters in New York City and Los Angeles, "There Will Be Blood" took in $185,525 over the weekend and $309,703 since opening Wednesday. It expands to the top 10 markets Friday.
"There Will Be Blood" joins other films of violence and misdeeds such as "No Country for Old Men," "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street" and "Michael Clayton" aiming for top honors at the Academy Awards. All scored well in this month's Golden Globe nominations.
Oscar campaigner Harvey Weinstein, who delivered such best-picture winners as "Shakespeare in Love" and "Chicago" while at Miramax, said he hoped his feel-good drama "The Great Debaters" would stand out for awards consideration among all the blood-soaked fare. The Weinstein Co. release, distributed by MGM, took in $6.3 million over the weekend and $13.5 million since opening on Christmas.
A Golden Globe nominee for best drama, "The Great Debaters" features director and star Denzel Washington alongside Forest Whitaker in a story of a black debate team in the 1930s South.
"We're late, but we're hoping we can get that last best-picture spot" for the Oscars, Weinstein said. "The other movies are pretty bloody, but this is an uplifting American story."
Oscar nominations come out Jan. 22.
Other films that debuted on Christmas had solid weekends. "Alien vs. Predator: Requiem," a sci-fi horror sequel from 20th Century Fox, took in $10.05 million, raising its total since opening day to $26.9 million. Sony's Loch Ness monster fantasy "The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep" grossed $9.2 million and lifted its sum to $16.8 million.
Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Media By Numbers LLC. Final figures will be released Wednesday.
1. estimate: Equals calculate.
2. sluggish: It means slow.
This article is about the most famous movie in these recent months, they are very interresting.
North Korea set to miss deadline to declare all its nuclear programs
North Korea appeared set Monday to miss a year-end deadline to disable a key nuclear reactor and declare all its nuclear programs, key components of its disarmament as agreed in an international accord.
The communist country promised to disable its main nuclear reactor at Yongbyon, north of Pyongyang, and give a full accounting of its nuclear programs by Dec. 31 in return for energy aid and political concessions.
The U.S., Japan and South Korea expressed disappointment, but they and other countries that negotiated the accord with the North have not indicated what, if any, sanctions Pyongyang would face over the delay.
The North shut down the plutonium-producing facility in July and disablement work is under way in cooperation with U.S. experts.
But diplomats, including South Korean Foreign Minister Song Min-soon, have said the North is likely to miss the year-end deadline for disablement because a key step _ removing fuel rods from the reactor _ could take several months.
The nuclear standoff began in late 2002 after the U.S. accused the North of seeking to secretly enrich uranium in violation of a 1994 disarmament deal.
In late 2003, the North began negotiations over its nuclear program with the U.S., China, Japan, Russia and South Korea in the so-called six-party talks, which eventually led to its disarmament commitments this year.
North Korea conducted its first nuclear test, an underground blast, in October 2006, adding urgency to the talks.
Expectations that the North would fail to deliver the promised statement on time have risen in recent weeks.
The country raised eyebrows last week when a North Korean official indicated it would slow its disablement work because it was dissatisfied over the delivery of aid to the North so far.
South Korea's Foreign Ministry expressed regret over the North's failure to meet the deadline and pressed the country to quickly deliver on its promise.
"Our government urges North Korea to faithfully declare all nuclear programs at an early date and complete disablement steps without delay," the ministry said in a statement.
In Washington, U.S. officials say they are disappointed about North Korea's delay.
"It is unfortunate that North Korea has not yet met its commitments by providing a complete and correct declaration of its nuclear programs and slowing down the process of disablement," the State Department said in a statement Sunday.
"We urge North Korea to deliver a complete and correct declaration of all its nuclear weapons programs and nuclear weapons and proliferation activities and complete the agreed disablement," the statement said.
In Tokyo, Japan said it was "unfortunate" that the North had not yet declared its nuclear programs, and urged the regime to do so immediately.
"North Korea must provide a complete and accurate declaration of all its nuclear programs at the earliest possible date, and make swift and solid progress in disabling its three nuclear facilities at Yongbyon," Japan's Foreign Ministry said in a statement Monday.
The reasons for the delay in declaring the nuclear programs appear related to the country's suspected uranium enrichment program and differences with Washington over how much plutonium it has produced.
Song, South Korea's top diplomat, said Thursday more consultation was required on the alleged uranium enrichment program, while a Japanese newspaper reported Pyongyang and Washington disagree on the plutonium issue.
The Tokyo Shimbun quoted unnamed U.S. and North Korean officials Thursday as saying the North has told the U.S. it has produced about 30 kilograms (66 pounds) of the nuclear material, considerably less than U.S. estimates of more than 50 kilograms (110 pounds).
1. declare: Tell something to public.
2. diplomat: A man who can take care of everything perfectly, or another meaning is a people who work for the government and social with foreigner in a foreign country.
The article is talking about North Korea's nuclear programs.Many country has put alot of pressure on North Korea.
The communist country promised to disable its main nuclear reactor at Yongbyon, north of Pyongyang, and give a full accounting of its nuclear programs by Dec. 31 in return for energy aid and political concessions.
The U.S., Japan and South Korea expressed disappointment, but they and other countries that negotiated the accord with the North have not indicated what, if any, sanctions Pyongyang would face over the delay.
The North shut down the plutonium-producing facility in July and disablement work is under way in cooperation with U.S. experts.
But diplomats, including South Korean Foreign Minister Song Min-soon, have said the North is likely to miss the year-end deadline for disablement because a key step _ removing fuel rods from the reactor _ could take several months.
The nuclear standoff began in late 2002 after the U.S. accused the North of seeking to secretly enrich uranium in violation of a 1994 disarmament deal.
In late 2003, the North began negotiations over its nuclear program with the U.S., China, Japan, Russia and South Korea in the so-called six-party talks, which eventually led to its disarmament commitments this year.
North Korea conducted its first nuclear test, an underground blast, in October 2006, adding urgency to the talks.
Expectations that the North would fail to deliver the promised statement on time have risen in recent weeks.
The country raised eyebrows last week when a North Korean official indicated it would slow its disablement work because it was dissatisfied over the delivery of aid to the North so far.
South Korea's Foreign Ministry expressed regret over the North's failure to meet the deadline and pressed the country to quickly deliver on its promise.
"Our government urges North Korea to faithfully declare all nuclear programs at an early date and complete disablement steps without delay," the ministry said in a statement.
In Washington, U.S. officials say they are disappointed about North Korea's delay.
"It is unfortunate that North Korea has not yet met its commitments by providing a complete and correct declaration of its nuclear programs and slowing down the process of disablement," the State Department said in a statement Sunday.
"We urge North Korea to deliver a complete and correct declaration of all its nuclear weapons programs and nuclear weapons and proliferation activities and complete the agreed disablement," the statement said.
In Tokyo, Japan said it was "unfortunate" that the North had not yet declared its nuclear programs, and urged the regime to do so immediately.
"North Korea must provide a complete and accurate declaration of all its nuclear programs at the earliest possible date, and make swift and solid progress in disabling its three nuclear facilities at Yongbyon," Japan's Foreign Ministry said in a statement Monday.
The reasons for the delay in declaring the nuclear programs appear related to the country's suspected uranium enrichment program and differences with Washington over how much plutonium it has produced.
Song, South Korea's top diplomat, said Thursday more consultation was required on the alleged uranium enrichment program, while a Japanese newspaper reported Pyongyang and Washington disagree on the plutonium issue.
The Tokyo Shimbun quoted unnamed U.S. and North Korean officials Thursday as saying the North has told the U.S. it has produced about 30 kilograms (66 pounds) of the nuclear material, considerably less than U.S. estimates of more than 50 kilograms (110 pounds).
1. declare: Tell something to public.
2. diplomat: A man who can take care of everything perfectly, or another meaning is a people who work for the government and social with foreigner in a foreign country.
The article is talking about North Korea's nuclear programs.Many country has put alot of pressure on North Korea.
Chinese government agency pumps US$20 billion into China Development Bank
China's sovereign wealth fund has made another large investment at home, injecting US$20 billion (euro14 billion) into a state agency that is preparing to become a commercial lender, the central bank said Monday.
The move by the China Investment Corp., or CIC, reflects a strategy announced by officials of investing the bulk of its US$200 billion (euro136 billion) in assets in China. That followed initial speculation that the CIC might go on a buying spree abroad.
The investment in China Development Bank was made through Central Huijin, according to the central bank in a statement on its Web site. Central Huijin owns large holdings in two major state banks and was acquired this year by CIC.
The money will help CDB meet capital requirements for commercial banks, the central bank said. CDB finances highways and other public works but Beijing wants to spin it off as a commercial lender.
The CIC was created in September to pursue better returns from a portion of China's US$1.4 trillion (euro950 billion) in foreign reserves, most of which are held in U.S. Treasury securities and other safe but low-yielding assets.
Its investments in state-owned banks are part of government efforts to create Chinese institutions that can compete with foreign rivals that are being allowed into China's banking market.
But analysts say investments in Chinese banks also could turn out to be very profitable for CIC. Foreign banks that have bought into Chinese banks as strategic partners have seen their holdings soar in value after the institutions sold shares to the public.
The rapid rise of such government investment funds in Asia and the Middle East has fueled concern abroad about their motives and drawn demands for them to release more information about their financial strategies.
The Chinese government said last month that two-thirds of CIC's investments would be made at home.
1. sovereign: It means the greatest power of lead.
2. investment: It means you put a lot of money into a business.
This article is about China's investment, this decision may make China become better than now.
The move by the China Investment Corp., or CIC, reflects a strategy announced by officials of investing the bulk of its US$200 billion (euro136 billion) in assets in China. That followed initial speculation that the CIC might go on a buying spree abroad.
The investment in China Development Bank was made through Central Huijin, according to the central bank in a statement on its Web site. Central Huijin owns large holdings in two major state banks and was acquired this year by CIC.
The money will help CDB meet capital requirements for commercial banks, the central bank said. CDB finances highways and other public works but Beijing wants to spin it off as a commercial lender.
The CIC was created in September to pursue better returns from a portion of China's US$1.4 trillion (euro950 billion) in foreign reserves, most of which are held in U.S. Treasury securities and other safe but low-yielding assets.
Its investments in state-owned banks are part of government efforts to create Chinese institutions that can compete with foreign rivals that are being allowed into China's banking market.
But analysts say investments in Chinese banks also could turn out to be very profitable for CIC. Foreign banks that have bought into Chinese banks as strategic partners have seen their holdings soar in value after the institutions sold shares to the public.
The rapid rise of such government investment funds in Asia and the Middle East has fueled concern abroad about their motives and drawn demands for them to release more information about their financial strategies.
The Chinese government said last month that two-thirds of CIC's investments would be made at home.
1. sovereign: It means the greatest power of lead.
2. investment: It means you put a lot of money into a business.
This article is about China's investment, this decision may make China become better than now.
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