Japan will provide a total of 2 billion dollars in financial assistance over three years starting 2014 to help address environmental pollution in developing countries, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Wednesday.
Abe made the pledge in a video message delivered at the opening ceremony of a three-day U.N. meeting being held in the southwestern Japan city of Minamata to discuss measures to prevent mercury pollution.
The meeting is expected to adopt the Minamata Convention to reduce the use of mercury on a global scale at a session to be held in the city of Kumamoto in the same prefecture on Thursday.
Source: NewsOnJapan
