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U.S. - Japan Joint Statement on Energy Security, Clean Development, and
Climate Change
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For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary April 27, 2007

U.S. - Japan Joint Statement on Energy Security, Clean Development, and
Climate Change

˙˙White House News


President Bush and Prime Minister Abe agreed today that confronting the
interlinked challenges of energy security, clean development, and climate
change requires sustained and effective global action. The United States
and Japan are working to ensure that the energy on which our economies
depend remains reliable, affordable, and secure by encouraging efficiency,
diversity of supply, and advances in technology. At the same time our
nations are making meaningful progress in addressing air pollution and
greenhouse gases from our power and transportation systems. We remain
committed to the ultimate objective of stabilizing greenhouse gas
concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous
anthropogenic interference with the climate system, and will further
explore the steps forward to this objective.

The United States and Japan are also advancing the clean energy technology
needed to change for the better the way we power our homes, businesses, and
automobiles. We are accelerating the development and deployment of these
technologies by providing policy incentives to reduce the cost barriers to
their full commercialization. We especially note the importance of
advancing: energy efficiency and renewable energy, alternative and
renewable fuels, hydrogen, near-zero emissions coal, nuclear energy, and
fusion energy. We will work together to advance our nationally-defined
objectives in these areas, taking advantage of a wide range of policy tools
and measures including mandatory programs, incentives, and public-private
technology partnerships. We will conduct a joint quantitative study on the
economic, technological, and climate benefits of energy efficiency, in
recognition of the trend toward national energy efficiency goals and
programs throughout the Asia-Pacific region.

The United States and Japan will work constructively with our international
partners, in particular the major energy consuming nations, to promote the
commercialization of advanced clean energy technologies. In this regard, we
will also use the G8, the UNFCCC, the Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean
Development and Climate, the International Energy Agency, APEC, the
Commission of Sustainable Development, and other multilateral partnerships.
We reaffirm the goals of the Reduce, Reuse and Recycle (3R) Initiative set
at the G8 Summit at Sea Island in 2004. This includes the reduction of
barriers to the international flow of goods and materials for recycling and
remanufacturing, recycled and remanufactured products, and cleaner, more
efficient technologies, consistent with existing environmental and trade
obligations and frameworks. We also note that a report on the Gleneagles
Dialogue on Climate Change, Clean Energy and Sustainable Development will
be received at the G8 summit meeting to be hosted by Japan in 2008.

We will also endeavor under the Montreal Protocol to ensure the recovery of
the ozone layer to pre-1980 levels by accelerating the phase-out of HCFCs
in a way that supports energy efficiency and climate change objectives. We
will continue to exercise leadership in the development of the Global Earth
Observation System of Systems (GEOSS).

The United States and Japan recognize the value of our bilateral High-Level
Consultations on Climate Change and will enhance, strengthen, and
streamline that dialogue. The United States will send a delegation of
senior-level officials to Japan before the G8 Summit in June to discuss
further implementation of this statement.

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