... the four Guest Speakers, starting with the Hon. Hamanaka Hironori, the Japanese Vice-Minister of Global Environmental Affairs, who reviewed what Japan was doing in terms of carbon dioxide emissions. New legislation is being enacted and the Kyoto Protocol will be ratified in the current session. Mr Hironori...

... examined the general environmental plus health and safety aspects of the phase-out and,here, I cannot be quite so enthusiastic. Many of the projects that I visited left me with the impression that considerable improvements could be made. In a couple of cases, I was even shocked: in one, some pre-adolescent...