Japanese and European Union leaders agreed on Wednesday at a regular meeting to help establish a new international framework aimed at promoting energy efficiency to better tackle with global warming.
According to a joint press statement released after the meeting, the Japanese side and the European Union called for the establishment of the International Partnership for Cooperation on Energy Efficiency (IPEEC) at a Group of Eight energy ministers meeting slated for June in northeastern Japan.
The framework will wait for formal authorization at the G8 summit meeting scheduled for early July in northern Japan's Hokkaido prefecture.
The one-day regular meeting was attended by Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso and Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Jansa, whose country is holding the EU's rotating presidency.
The new framework eyes individual goals for each country to improve energy efficiency, according to the statement.
Japan and the EU are also coordinating with other major emitters for breakthrough on anti-global warming at the G8 summit, Barroso told reporters.
About challenges currently confronting the world economy, leaders from the two sides agreed to "closely cooperate" in dealing with rising oil and food prices and expressed their concern over the negative trend's potential larger impacts.
About the Korean Peninsula nuclear issue, the two sides agreed to strengthen cooperation to push for the goals set by the six-party talks. They also expressed concerns over the Iranian nuclear standoff.
Source:Xinhua
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