Japan voiced support Monday for the concerns of developing countries at a conference on global climate change.
"Japan recognizes the developing countries' concerns on the issue," Kazuo Asakai, a member of the Japanese government delegation to the Sixth Conference of Parties to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP6), told a working-level meeting of representatives from developed countries.
Under the framework convention, the parties had accepted their responsibility to help the least developed countries, small island states and other vulnerable regions adapt to the impact of climate change.
The conference aims to take measures to adhere to the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, which calls for cuts in greenhouse gas emissions.