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For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
April 27, 2007
U.S. - Japan Joint Statement on Energy Security, Clean Development, and Climate Change
President Bush and Prime Minister Abe agreed today that confronting the
interlinked challenges of energy security, clean development, and
climate change requires sustained and effective global action. The
United States and Japan are working to ensure that the energy on which
our economies depend remains reliable, affordable, and secure by
encouraging efficiency, diversity of supply, and advances in technology.
At the same time our nations are making meaningful progress in
addressing air pollution and greenhouse gases from our power and
transportation systems. We remain committed to the ultimate objective of
stabilizing greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level
that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate
system, and will further explore the steps forward to this objective.
The United States and Japan are also advancing the clean energy
technology needed to change for the better the way we power our homes,
businesses, and automobiles. We are accelerating the development and
deployment of these technologies by providing policy incentives to
reduce the cost barriers to their full commercialization. We especially
note the importance of advancing: energy efficiency and renewable
energy, alternative and renewable fuels, hydrogen, near-zero emissions
coal, nuclear energy, and fusion energy. We will work together to
advance our nationally-defined objectives in these areas, taking
advantage of a wide range of policy tools and measures including
mandatory programs, incentives, and public-private technology
partnerships. We will conduct a joint quantitative study on the
economic, technological, and climate benefits of energy efficiency, in
recognition of the trend toward national energy efficiency goals and
programs throughout the Asia-Pacific region.
The United States and Japan will work constructively with our
international partners, in particular the major energy consuming
nations, to promote the commercialization of advanced clean energy
technologies. In this regard, we will also use the G8, the UNFCCC, the
Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate, the
International Energy Agency, APEC, the Commission of Sustainable
Development, and other multilateral partnerships. We reaffirm the goals
of the Reduce, Reuse and Recycle (3R) Initiative set at the G8 Summit at
Sea Island in 2004. This includes the reduction of barriers to the
international flow of goods and materials for recycling and
remanufacturing, recycled and remanufactured products, and cleaner, more
efficient technologies, consistent with existing environmental and trade
obligations and frameworks. We also note that a report on the Gleneagles
Dialogue on Climate Change, Clean Energy and Sustainable Development
will be received at the G8 summit meeting to be hosted by Japan in 2008.
We will also endeavor under the Montreal Protocol to ensure the recovery
of the ozone layer to pre-1980 levels by accelerating the phase-out of
HCFCs in a way that supports energy efficiency and climate change
objectives. We will continue to exercise leadership in the development
of the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS).
The United States and Japan recognize the value of our bilateral
High-Level Consultations on Climate Change and will enhance, strengthen,
and streamline that dialogue. The United States will send a delegation
of senior-level officials to Japan before the G8 Summit in June to
discuss further implementation of this statement.
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