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Denmark: Japanese opposition win good for climate

Denmark's climate minister says the landslide election win by Japan's opposition Democratic Party could be very good news for the climate.

Denmark's climate minister says the landslide election win by Japan's opposition Democratic Party could be very good news for the climate.

Connie Hedegaard says party leader Yukio Hatoyama made an election campaign pledge to slash Japan's greenhouse gas emissions 25 percent below 1990 levels in the coming decade. The ruling conservatives who were defeated, had promised a 15-percent cut.

Hedegaard says Hatoyama's pledge would put Japan "in an international leadership position" and give a boost to the crucial U.N. climate talks set for December. World leaders are expected to agree on a new global climate treaty at the conference in Copenhagen.