Yomiuri Shimbun: A movement to better maintain domestic forests, which can absorb carbon dioxide, and promote the use of domestically produced timber as part of the effort to tackle global warming is gaining ground in both public and private sectors. As a signatory of the Kyoto Protocol, the government has pledged to cut greenhouse gas emissions by an average of 6 percent from its 1990 level between fiscal 2008 and 2012. The government aims to have forests absorb 3.8 percent of the amount of …