Promises promises...

Kyoto in Kyoto: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Recover , Dispose

What the Kyoto Governments have committed themselves to doing....
(full text available at: http://www.pref.kyoto.jp/eco_message/message_e.html

地球温暖化防止に向けた京都からのメッセージ
日本語 : http://www.pref.kyoto.jp/eco_message/message_j.html

Remember, THEY said it ,
-It is up to US to hold them to it

"Honored by the fact that the Protocol was adopted in Kyoto and named after the region, we have concluded the Kyoto Global Environment Declaration under the names of 15 organizations, announcing to the world that Kyoto is determined to devote all its energies to preserving the global environment.

Based on the Declaration, we have set our targets high at realizing a 10% or more reduction of Carbon dioxides emission a year by 2010 compared to that of 1990.

Citizens, businesses, environmental organizations, and local governments in Kyoto have been making efforts together for the targets. "

January 1, 2000
Teiichi Aramaki , Governor of Kyoto Prefecture
Yorikane Masumoto , Mayor of Kyoto City
Kazuo Inamori , Chairman of Kyoto Chamber of ,Commerce & Industry
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- A Message to the World about Preventing Global Warming,
from the People of Kyoto City -
"The Kyoto Protocol was created here, in our city of Kyoto.
The name 'Kyoto' will become even more deeply ingrained in the hearts of people around the world as they depart on their journey to achieving the prevention of global warming.

As such, the world may look to Kyoto City and its people as an example.
It is with self-awareness and pride that we, as residents of Kyoto City, and as residents of the world, work to carefully observe and foster the ideas set forth in this Protocol."
http://www.city.kyoto.jp/koho/eng/plan/warming.html
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A message of hope from The Miyako Agenda 21 Forum
(full text is at: http://web.kyoto-inet.or.jp/org/ma21f/foreign/english.html

"We, as representatives sustainable (sic) of the city that gave birth to the Kyoto Protocol, take our responsibility toward the global environment seriously.

With hard work, perseverance, and a measure of luck, we hope that the world will eventually find that that the trust it has given to Kyoto, the cradle of climate change prevention, has been well-placed indeed.

-but they couldn't resist adding this cry for help...

"Unfortunately, traditional divisions within the local administration, combined with difficulties in coordination, continue to present substantial barriers to local development and climate change prevention."

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Some positive statements by the Kyoto Prefectural Government on the exact nature of how to achieve minimisation of greenhouse gases : http://www.pref.kyoto.jp/intro/21cent/kankyo/index_e.html

( remember , time has been taken to translate all this into English , presumably in the expectation that the foreign media might be interested in what Kyoto itself was doing )

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I put this web-log together to highlight the dangers of letting our government live by the images they create and present to us , and to remind us that we can have a role in holding them to their stated policies.

Governments which are not taking leadership in efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions are standing in the way of individuals and businesses who are.

Such is Kyoto.

If we don't change , we'll end up where we're going.

AL in Kyoto.

E-mail to: alinkyoto@yahoo.co.nz