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  2. Environmental issues in Japan - Wikipedia

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    Japan burns close to two thirds of its waste in municipal and industrial incinerators. [9] In 1999, some experts estimated 70 percent of the world's waste incinerators were located in Japan. [9] Combined with incinerator technologies of the time, this caused Japan to have the highest level of dioxin in its air of all G20 nations. [9]

  3. Climate change in Japan - Wikipedia

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    Climate change is expected to have an impact on various sectors of Japan's population. In the economic sector, it will affect agriculture, urbanization, and energy, while in the health sector, it will affect people in terms of mortality and increased exposure to heatwaves, among other impacts

  4. List of international environmental agreements - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of international environmental agreements.. Most of the following agreements are legally binding for countries that have formally ratified them. Some, such as the Kyoto Protocol, differentiate between types of countries and each nation's respective responsibilities under the agreement.

  5. Japan–Mexico relations - Wikipedia

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    After the Meiji Restoration, in which the Empire of Japan officially reestablished diplomatic relations with various governments of the world, in Mexico arose interest to initiate official relations with the Empire of Japan. The expedition from Mexico to Japan in 1874, led by the Mexican scientist Francisco Díaz Covarrubias, was the reason why ...

  6. Human rights and climate change - Wikipedia

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    Climate change will equally affect the right to life through an increase in hunger and malnutrition and related disorder impacting child growth and development, respiratory morbidity and ground-level ozone. [34] Rising sea levels is one of the flow-on effects of climate change, resulting from warming water and melting ice sheets.

  7. Mexico Charts a New Path on Climate Change - AOL

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    Mexico’s new approach to climate is a significant development in the fight against climate change. That’s in part because every pound of carbon emissions matters, and the country is by some ...

  8. Mexico's Sheinbaum: from activist to climate scientist to ...

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    MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - When Claudia Sheinbaum - the frontrunner to become Mexico's next president - was just six years old, her parents were active participants in protests during one of the ...

  9. List of environmental laws by country - Wikipedia

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    Law of the People's Republic of China on Prevention and Control of Pollution from Environmental Noise; Law of the People's Republic of China on Prevention and Control of Water Pollution; Law of the People's Republic of China on Water and Soil Conservation; Law on Desert Prevention and Transformation 2001; Law on Marine Environment Protection 1983