TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan will be able to meet its greenhouse gas emissions limits agreed under the Kyoto Protocol through additional, mainly voluntary, agreements with industry, a government panel said.
That revised upwards by 1-2 million tonnes a December estimate of what emissions cuts the new measures could deliver.
The 37 million tonnes in annual emissions cuts included 19 million which relied on additional voluntary agreements with various industries.
Japan, the world's fifth-biggest greenhouse gas producer, cut its emissions by 1.3 percent in the year ended March 2007 to 1.341 billion tonnes of CO2 equivalent, but the figure still exceeded its commitments under the Kyoto Protocol by some 155 million tonnes a year.
(Reporting by Osamu Tsukimori, editing by Gerard Wynn)
