http://www.wikio.com/search=Kyoto Wikio - Kyoto http://www.wikio.com/search/Kyoto?rinfoid=63154366 Post Magazine ( UK ) : Allianz and the World Wildlife Fund have commissioned an independent report examining the climate performance of the G8 nations according to nine criteria, such as comparing emission trends since 1990 and examining each country’s progress against their Kyoto targets. The G8 Climate Scorecards 2008 also scores the countries on three specific policy areas: energy efficiency, renewable energy, and development of carbon markets. Allianz chief executive officer Andrew Torrance, who was recently appointed chairman of the insurance industry’s Climate Wise initiative said: “We in the insurance industry wish to make our contribution through reducing our own emissions, encouraging climate-friendly behaviour by our customers and taking investment decisions in the context of climate change. “Reducing carbon emissions is a must but action is also needed at the adaptation level. Governments around the world must urgently take action to protect people from serious weather events like the flooding in Britain just one year ago which will increase in frequency and severity due to climate change.”… Sat, 05 Jul 2008 21:14:00 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Kyoto?rinfoid=63154366 2008-07-05T21:14:00Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Kyoto?rinfoid=63134060 Memories of a Giesha - my first visit to Japan Sat, 05 Jul 2008 18:51:52 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Kyoto?rinfoid=63134060 2008-07-05T18:51:52Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Kyoto?rinfoid=63130126 Memories of a Giesha - my first visit to Japan Sat, 05 Jul 2008 17:41:10 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Kyoto?rinfoid=63130126 2008-07-05T17:41:10Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Kyoto?rinfoid=63128577 Delightfully plainspoken: Earth begins to kill people for changing its climate. h/t.... Sat, 05 Jul 2008 17:23:47 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Kyoto?rinfoid=63128577 2008-07-05T17:23:47Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Kyoto?rinfoid=63119910 The Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development Mechanism, the world's biggest carbon-offset program, is utterly failing to reduce harmful greenhouse gas emissions.... Sat, 05 Jul 2008 15:30:48 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Kyoto?rinfoid=63119910 2008-07-05T15:30:48Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Kyoto?rinfoid=63117545 so i lied..... im writing again well the rest of the japan trip is booked and paid for as of yesterday yippeeee arrive on the 1st of september and head straight to shibuya where lost in translation was filmed hehe for 2 nights then jump on the bullet train for an overnight tour around kyoto and nara...then back to shibuya for my birthday after a few more nights in shibuya will be heading Sat, 05 Jul 2008 14:54:56 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Kyoto?rinfoid=63117545 2008-07-05T14:54:56Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Kyoto?rinfoid=63094409 Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:09:23 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Kyoto?rinfoid=63094409 2008-07-05T08:09:23Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Kyoto?rinfoid=63089114 CONCLUSIONS. The original premise for this long series of posts was this. If the Kyoto Protocol is only in place to preserve the environment for future generations, then, surely, that can only be a good thing. So, why are there Countries holding out on implementing what is called for? In December the Prime Minister of the Country I live [...] Sat, 05 Jul 2008 05:01:01 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Kyoto?rinfoid=63089114 2008-07-05T05:01:01Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Kyoto?rinfoid=63077619 Filed under: News What better way to celebrate Independence Day than by putting the faces of governmental figures on a sticker? The real story behind the above isn't quite that hilarious, actually. Late last month at the G8 foreign ministers' meeting in Kyoto, this beautifully redone DS was spotted, alongside stickers bearing the faces of the ministers. All that's missing is a sticker on the DS, though frankly, that Lite is way too pretty to muck up with stickers. We'd probably do it anyway, though, for the lulz . Gallery: Limited Edition Lites: A History of Sadness Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments Sat, 05 Jul 2008 01:35:02 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Kyoto?rinfoid=63077619 2008-07-05T01:35:02Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Kyoto?rinfoid=63055227 Fri, 04 Jul 2008 18:46:02 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Kyoto?rinfoid=63055227 2008-07-04T18:46:02Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Kyoto?rinfoid=63052561 A Kyoto University professor has found a way to create huge quantities of protective avian influenza (bird flu) antibodies using nature's largest egg, that of the ostrich. Technorati Tags: Health Innovation Invention Nature News Science Fri, 04 Jul 2008 18:29:57 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Kyoto?rinfoid=63052561 2008-07-04T18:29:57Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Kyoto?rinfoid=63058341 If you were holding a conference for the eight richest nations in the world and needed to give out gifts fast, what is the first thing you would think of? Certainly not a videogame product, right? Before the G8 conference officially kicks off in Kyoto, Japan, at least three important bureaucrats in attendance were presented with gifts. The US’s very own Condolezza Rice’s offerings consisted of some stickers in her likeness, as well as a customized DS Lite. The DS looks pretty hip, but I don’t know if that is the most profound gift I could give a world leader. I suppose it could serve as a reminder that the eight largest nations should conserve energy, and therefore need to keep their console playing to a minimum. Personally, I’m digging the stickers. I look forward to the day when I get so popular that someone gives me a sticker of myself. Let me pose this to you guys. What the hell kind of videogame product would you buy a minister at G8? Also, how would it be customized? [Via Engadget ] Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:46:00 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Kyoto?rinfoid=63058341 2008-07-04T14:46:00Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Kyoto?rinfoid=63024375 Japan rues being bundled into a Kyoto deal Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:23:02 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Kyoto?rinfoid=63024375 2008-07-04T14:23:02Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Kyoto?rinfoid=63023312 The Kyoto Protocols expire in 2012. CEOs around the world are already planning for it. Last month, more than 100 executives put together an outline of policy recommendations for managing climate change. They presented this outline the Japanese Prim Minister, Yasuo Fukuda. Fukuda is currently planning for the next G-8 summit, which will be held this month, in July. This move isn’t just greenwashing fodder for these CEOs’ PR departments, though. It’s a clear indicator that these CEOs are being proactive in developing the policies that will affect their businesses. They’re working to avoid surprises; they’re willing to make the changes necessary to deal with climate changes but want to do so on their own terms. Mark Raskino and Simon Mingay are analysts for Gartner Inc, an industry watchdog. They wrote : "These CEOs are taking highly visible collective action to...[m]itigate the risk that uncertainty over intergovernmental policy presents to their businesses.” Raskino and Mingay added that the letter is a part of an effort to "create a level international playing field for issues such as greenhouse gas emission controls and taxation." These recommendations cover several climate change issues. If enacted, one of the immediate effects would be the availability of electronically traded carbon credits. Photo — World Economic Forum Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:15:00 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Kyoto?rinfoid=63023312 2008-07-04T14:15:00Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Kyoto?rinfoid=63031861 Liberal Party leader Stephane Dion is prepared to tax the oil operations of Alberta and Saskatchewan, to punish them for being the source of so much carbon dioxide that is wrecking the planet. Kyoto (the protocol, not Stephane Dion's dog) demands it. It makes no such demand of countries like India. It doesn't seem fair, at first glance. Take a deeper look, and it's grossly unfair. And I mean gross . As we all know, the Kyoto Protocol , so much loved by Liberal Party leader Stephane Dion that he named his dog Kyoto, exempts countries like India and China from having any emission targets. Why? I'm going to focus on India. The reasoning is based on the idea that the industrialized world polluted first. To apply limitations to India would cheat it of its chance to complete a transition to industrialization. It is also a matter of per capita emissions. Every Canadian emits many times more carbon dioxide in the course of a day compared to an Indian. That makes us bad people and so we must be punished by the Kyoto Protocol. But really, I wonder about that. I mean, if we're passing moral judgments here, sheer honesty ought to play a role. Consider this from India's state oil company, Oil and Natural Gas Corporation : ONGC participates in the Green Movement with responsibility towards society and the world. We bring you four stories on this positive approach of ONGC. Long before ecology became the refrain of the global song at Stockholm and Rio, the ancient Indian heritage had already provided a specious spiritual home for the environmental ethos. India has, throughout trackless centuries, provided an ample expense of friendly space for an open and ongoing discourse of ideas. The relics and traditions established the principles of ecological harmony centuries ago-not because the world was perceived as heading for an imminent environmental disaster or destruction, nor because of any immediate utilitarian exigency, but through its quest for spiritual and physical symbiosis, synthesized in a system of ethical awareness and moral responsibility. Well then. I'd say India doesn't need Kyoto. As implied, the Kyoto Protocol is really for people who are not in tune with the environment and need to make up for lost time. In India, they've had "trackless centuries" of Kyoto-like love for the environment. Is this marketing gibberish developed by some ad agency? No. It is an official government position, since ONGC is a state agency. As a schedule 'A' industry, the oil industry was nationalized and made the exclusive responsibility of the state in 1956. Since then there has been some liberalization. Today, the government of India controls only 84.11% of ONGC. Still, I think that counts as a state-run concern. Spiritual and physical symbiosis. Want to see some examples of spiritual and physical symbiosis? Here are some of ONGC's operation near Sivasagar. As a state operation, the rigs, the land, equipment, everything, is government property. It would explain the appearance of the soldier in the fifth photograph. You can click on the photos to enlarge them. Yes, those are open industrial waste ponds, adjoining rice paddies. Yes, this is monsoon country where they are guaranteed that flooding will happen every year. No, this is not a picture after a monsoon. Just a good rain, like the sort that normally happen in this part of the world. Drums rusted out, on their sides, three-quarters buried in the mud. A weird mix of oil and solvents and other chemicals in open pools, leeching through the mud walls into the farm waters beyond. The potentially lethal mix of chemicals never meant to be combined sourced from a combination of open and damaged piping and a refuse pile of water-sodden bags in which the chemicals had originally been shipped (sixth photo from the top). This is not an abandoned site, but an actual working drillhead. This is the sort of thing that is forgotten in the wise decision by people like Stephane Dion, Al Gore, and David Suzuki to accuse countries like Canada or the United States of polluting the planet. Want to see a North American operation? I mean, an oil drilling operation is a dirty and smelly place, right? It's a bit of exaggeration, but not much, to say that you could eat off these. Yes, these are actual working rigs. The operations themselves are far more safety conscious, both for the employees and for the environment in general. Safety meetings every shift change, regular sampling of air and water, shutdown procedures enforced in case of incidents that require it. Remember those unfortunate ducks that drowned on the Syncrude tailings pond in Alberta? Half-expected the International Court at the Hague to get involved, the way people were carrying on. The company promised to fix the problem. But then how can you trust Syncrude to care about ducks: Greenpeace called the apology "hollow," saying it expects a firm commitment from the company to change its practices. Syncrude said it would take the problem seriously, but of course they're lying. How can Greenpeace tell? Well, for one thing, Syncrude doesn't have a tradition going back "trackless centuries" of "principles of ecological harmony". Right. Syncrude is the villain that Stephane Dion wants to smash with his carbon tax, using the money to fund...what? Massive shifts of wealth via carbon credits to places like India? Just to appease the Kyoto crowds? Livestock near the ONGC facility fell over dead after drinking the run-off. We're not talking about a few wild ducks that landed on a waste area on company property, but domesticated animals on designated farmland drinking what was supposed to safe water. The response from the company? The animals had drowned in the monsoon rain. But what about that dead animal on the hill? Quite the monsoon for the waters to have risen that far up. That was the conversation between the person who took these photos and officials from the state-owned ONGC. A Canadian firm working under contract has concluded that oil operations in India are environmental nightmares. Money is not spent on anything but the most rudimentary maintenance. Equipment runs, but anything related to emission controls and toxic waste managment and such are ignored, considered unnecessary. A filter is clogged? Remove the filter. The Canadian firm is trying to extricate itself from the contract, having seen what a nightmare this is. It can't even complain to the government, because this is a government operation. The government of India, on the other hand, seems to be happy to beat the Kyoto drum. It suits its goals perfectly. Not only does the focus on carbon dioxide (not actually a pollutant) mean that the media is passing over the truly terrible environmental destruction that is happening in India, the Kyoto Protocol is designed to move money from clean operations like the ones you see in North America to the state-owned filth-ridden chemical horrors in India and elsewhere in the third world. Stephen Harper and the Conservatives have taken the position that global environmental treaties mean nothing if they don't actually include polluting countries like India. I'd say he has a point. Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:14:00 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Kyoto?rinfoid=63031861 2008-07-04T14:14:00Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Kyoto?rinfoid=63033247 THE post-Kyoto, circa Garnaut reality is that everyone is having to think about ways of cutting their travel costs and time. Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:00:00 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Kyoto?rinfoid=63033247 2008-07-04T14:00:00Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Kyoto?rinfoid=63024641 The Kyoto Protocol on climate change negotiated in 1997 was unfair to Japan, one of the nation's chief climate negotiators tells BBC News. Fri, 04 Jul 2008 13:23:02 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Kyoto?rinfoid=63024641 2008-07-04T13:23:02Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Kyoto?rinfoid=63016626 The Kaibo Zonshinzu is a beautiful collection of 83 anatomical illustrations on two scrolls, by a doctor from Kyoto named Yasukazu Minagaki. Painted in 1819, they are based on the observations he made during his dissections of more than 40 executed criminals. Minagaki adopted the style of illustrators such as Johann Adam Kulmus . His drawings were seen by Philipp von Siebold, the Dutch anatomist who is believed to have been the first Westerner to teach Western medicine in Japan. Siebold was so impressed by them that he made a complimentary inscription on the first scroll. The collection is considered to be the finest of all the early nineteenth century Japanese anatomical drawings, and is of great historical and cultural significance, as it documents the level of anatomical knowledge attained by physicians of the late Edo period. It is stored in the Rare Books Room at Keio University Library . (Via Pink Tentacle , Morbid Anatomy and Ectoplasmosis ) Related : Morbid Anatomy of the Human Brain Read the comments on this post... Fri, 04 Jul 2008 13:18:57 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Kyoto?rinfoid=63016626 2008-07-04T13:18:57Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Kyoto?rinfoid=63012325 The Canadian Kyoto Accord, Kyoto Accord is intended to cut green house gases that cause climate change. To my understanding this is based on the global factor in which countries can buy emission credits off one another. One example would be China wanting to buy credits off of Canada due to the fact that China obviously has a higher rate of greenhouse gases with China’s population estimated at 1.3 billion compared to Canada’s estimated at 34 million. Based on my common sense analogy we will identify a pure Liberal carbon tax for Canada. In this analogy we will compare rural to urban definition to greenhouse gas emissions, which inevitably equal our carbon foot prints. Since our carbon foot print is a major media hit, we may as well add our common sense opinion. Urban communities such as Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Ottawa and Halifax have a high pollution rate. This is based on pollution research over carbon tax research. Since I am not able to find a credible evaluation of what a “carbon footprint” truly is, what I found was, for pollution in a Health Canada website referring to respiratory, deaths and many more problems from urban areas. http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/sr-sr/finance/tsri-irst/proj/urb-air/tsri-29-eng.php “Higher death rates were seen to correspond with high pollution days in Canadian cities. Coarse air particles (PM2.5 > PM10) showed a strong effect on asthma and hospitalization. In Vancouver first-time hospital admissions for respiratory disease, asthma and pneumonia increased 3 days after a day of high pollution. Also, NO2 was most likely to affect males and SO2 was most likely to affect girls, and health effects worsened with a decrease in socioeconomic level. Children were found to be at increased risk for acute respiratory problems from short term exposure to particles in polluted urban air. Asthma hospitalization in children appears to be related to gaseous pollutants in air, and sex dependent relationships to SO2, NO2 and CO were found. Pre-term births appeared to be associated with exposure to SO2 and CO in the final month of pregnancy. Data on the chemical content of air particles was collected in this study to assist in understanding how these differences affect health in different areas of cities. These findings may assist cities with pollution-reduction plans.” So our common sense conclusion would be Canada’s major cities are giving off way too much green house gases. That is where we step in and assume our Canadian Kyoto Accord. Rural cities like Kemptville Ontario, does not give off nearly as much green house gases as Toronto or Vancouver. Kemptville population is estimated at 15,000 people and Toronto is estimated at 2.5 million people. Law of physics easily explains the density of the population between the two cities but just in case I’ll input further for you. Kemptville has 15,000 people, with considerable less mufflers, heating costs, electricity, food assumption etc… Toronto having about 2.5 million people would obviously put their emissions through the roof compared to a small town like Kemptville Ontario. So to in fact use the Liberal favored Kyoto Accord in Canada as a Global answer to greenhouse gas emission. Even David Suzuki could not argue with, we should add…. Force Toronto, Vancouver, Halifax, Montreal and even Ottawa to pay cash buy emissions off of small towns like Kemptville Ontario to exist in our Global war on greenhouse gases. Paying cash to small town residents may actually help us cover our enormous price of gasoline and perk up or already friendly rural attitude. Now this would be a Liberal carbon tax, that I think most rural Canadians would actually vote for!  Fri, 04 Jul 2008 12:06:00 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Kyoto?rinfoid=63012325 2008-07-04T12:06:00Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Kyoto?rinfoid=63024298 by Thomas Ricker , posted Jul 4th 2008 at 3:54AM It really does pay to be a foreign minister representing the 8 richest countries in the world. This Japanese-lacquered DS lite is just one of the items presented to the G8 ministers participating in last week's talks in Kyoto. The other items included a scented perfume ball and manga-styled stickers for each of the participant to attach to their diplomatic tricycles. Read Permalink Email this 12 Comments Filed under: Gaming, Handhelds Fri, 04 Jul 2008 09:14:57 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Kyoto?rinfoid=63024298 2008-07-04T09:14:57Z