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Created
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10TOKYO110
2010-01-19 22:49:00
UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
Embassy Tokyo
Cable title:
JAPAN TO ASSOCIATE WITH COPENHAGEN ACCORD,
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UNCLAS TOKYO 000110
SENSITIVE
SIPDIS
STATE FOR OES/EGC - DREW NELSON, RACHEL KASTENBERG AND KATE
LARSEN
E - PAUL BROWN
S/SECC - TODD STERN, JONATHAN PERSHING, PETER OGDEN
EAP/J - VIRGINIA MURRAY AND HEATHER DRESSER
IO, G
PASS TO USAID
USDOC FOR NOAA CLIMATE CHANGE OFFICE - SID THURSTON
WHITE HOUSE FOR CEQ - NANCY SUTLEY
USDOE FOR S-3 - ROBERT MARLAY
PASS TO USTR FOR BEEMAN
EPA FOR CHRISTOPHER GRUNDLER
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: ENRG KGHG SENV ENRG PREL JA
SUBJECT: JAPAN TO ASSOCIATE WITH COPENHAGEN ACCORD,
INSCRIBE ITS COMMITMENT
REF: STATE 3080
UNCLAS TOKYO 000110
SENSITIVE
SIPDIS
STATE FOR OES/EGC - DREW NELSON, RACHEL KASTENBERG AND KATE
LARSEN
E - PAUL BROWN
S/SECC - TODD STERN, JONATHAN PERSHING, PETER OGDEN
EAP/J - VIRGINIA MURRAY AND HEATHER DRESSER
IO, G
PASS TO USAID
USDOC FOR NOAA CLIMATE CHANGE OFFICE - SID THURSTON
WHITE HOUSE FOR CEQ - NANCY SUTLEY
USDOE FOR S-3 - ROBERT MARLAY
PASS TO USTR FOR BEEMAN
EPA FOR CHRISTOPHER GRUNDLER
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: ENRG KGHG SENV ENRG PREL JA
SUBJECT: JAPAN TO ASSOCIATE WITH COPENHAGEN ACCORD,
INSCRIBE ITS COMMITMENT
REF: STATE 3080
1. (SBU) EMIN demarched Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA)
Director General for Global Issues Shinsuke Sugiyama on
January 19, per Reftel. Sugiyama agreed wholeheartedly that
getting the Copenhagen Accord up and running is the highest
priority through January. He said the GOJ is in the midst of
figuring out how it will implement its targets, adding it is
holding ministerial meetings this week and next to
"get the target done" before the January 31 deadline. When
asked to have the GOJ associate itself with the Accord,
Sugiyama replied that Japan is doing so, and is also trying
to encourage this on a global basis, particularly in Asia.
2. (U) Sugiyama asked EMIN to convey his appreciation to
President Obama for breaking the stalemate in negotiations in
Copenhagen, saying they were heading toward "certain failure"
before the President's personal intervention. Sugiyama
closed by saying he would remain in close contact
with Washington through the inscription period, and afterward
to coordinate planning for COP-16.
ZUMWALT
SENSITIVE
SIPDIS
STATE FOR OES/EGC - DREW NELSON, RACHEL KASTENBERG AND KATE
LARSEN
E - PAUL BROWN
S/SECC - TODD STERN, JONATHAN PERSHING, PETER OGDEN
EAP/J - VIRGINIA MURRAY AND HEATHER DRESSER
IO, G
PASS TO USAID
USDOC FOR NOAA CLIMATE CHANGE OFFICE - SID THURSTON
WHITE HOUSE FOR CEQ - NANCY SUTLEY
USDOE FOR S-3 - ROBERT MARLAY
PASS TO USTR FOR BEEMAN
EPA FOR CHRISTOPHER GRUNDLER
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: ENRG KGHG SENV ENRG PREL JA
SUBJECT: JAPAN TO ASSOCIATE WITH COPENHAGEN ACCORD,
INSCRIBE ITS COMMITMENT
REF: STATE 3080
1. (SBU) EMIN demarched Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA)
Director General for Global Issues Shinsuke Sugiyama on
January 19, per Reftel. Sugiyama agreed wholeheartedly that
getting the Copenhagen Accord up and running is the highest
priority through January. He said the GOJ is in the midst of
figuring out how it will implement its targets, adding it is
holding ministerial meetings this week and next to
"get the target done" before the January 31 deadline. When
asked to have the GOJ associate itself with the Accord,
Sugiyama replied that Japan is doing so, and is also trying
to encourage this on a global basis, particularly in Asia.
2. (U) Sugiyama asked EMIN to convey his appreciation to
President Obama for breaking the stalemate in negotiations in
Copenhagen, saying they were heading toward "certain failure"
before the President's personal intervention. Sugiyama
closed by saying he would remain in close contact
with Washington through the inscription period, and afterward
to coordinate planning for COP-16.
ZUMWALT