GPN Japan’s Chairman, Prof Hideki Nakahara, has received the Tower Person Award for Consumer Educators International 2007 from the Consumer Citizenship Network (CNN).

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At the C40 Large Cities Climate Summit, Toronto's mayor, David Miller, announced that his city would take advantage of a new tool to measure and reduce Toronto's greenhouse gas emissions.

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Concern for the environment has prompted one of the most complete and speedy revolutions in consumer attitudes ever seen, according to new research, although most people surveyed had an incomplete grasp of what exactly makes a company green.

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"The world has the technological and financial means to fight climate change, but must act now to make a difference" - this is the conclusion of the latest report from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), launched in Bangkok, Thailand on the 4 May.

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The Kyoto treaty committed Canada to reducing emissions by 6% from 1990 levels by the period 2008-2012 but emissions are currently about 30% above the 1990 figure. The Canadian government's new target is to cut emissions by 20% between now and 2020, and the government believes the strategy may reduce Canada's economic growth by 0.5% but that striving to meet the Kyoto target would be ruinous.

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