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Fukushima Daiichi and the Kyoto Protocol / Daniel Firger, Associate Director Center for Climate Change Law, Climate Law Blog, 22/03/2011http://blogs.law.columbia.edu/climatechange/2011/03/22/fukushima-daiichi-and-the-kyoto-protocol/As a result of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami and the ongoing crisis  at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, speculation is mounting  that Japan will be unable to meet its greenhouse gas emission (GHG)  reduction targets under the Kyoto Protocol and may declare “force  majeure,” effectively denouncing the treaty which bears the name of its  historic capital city. This speculation is overwrought. For any number  of reasons, both  legal and political, Japan has no need to take such a dramatic and  public step...