A draft joint statement by climate and environment ministers of the Group of Seven industrialized nations contains a phaseout of coal-fired power generation by 2030, a Japanese government source said Thursday.Germany, the rotating chair of the G-7, proposed the draft ahead of a meeting of the G-7 ministers slated for late May in Berlin. Japan, with a relatively high dependence on coal, is requesting the target be removed from the statement as members of the group continue discussing it, the source said.But the request by Japan met with opposition from such members as Canada, France and the …READ FULL ARTICLE
