On the afternoon of July 3, the DPJ's Global Warming Countermeasures Headquarters (Chair: Vice President Katsuya Okada) heard separate presentations from officials from the Agency for Natural Resources and Energy, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) and the Ministry of the Environment (MOE) within the Diet on the following subjects:

(1) the emergency proposal 'new policy directions for renewable energy' made by the renewable energy subcommittee of the general resource and energy research committee (METI)
(2) the intermediate report published by the research committee into economic methods of combating global warming (METI)
(3) the Ministry of the Environment's Proposal for a trial implementation of an integrated domestic market for emissions trading.

In addition, Countermeasures Headquarters members also asked officials from METI and MOE if it will be possible for the two ministries to coordinate their differing views before the trial implementation of a domestic CO2 emissions trading market from this fall. Both ministries explained that the Prime Ministers' office will establish an investigative team and mediate between the two ministries and that based on instructions from the Prime Minister they will work to achieve coordinated and cooperative action. DPJ members proposed that the emissions trading scheme should cover not only corporations but should also cover CO2縲?absorbed by forests and that therefore the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries should be included in future discussions.