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11 unusual facts about Kyoto Protocol


Astarta Holding

In 2008 ASTARTA, was one of the first agricultural companies to sign an agreement with the Multilateral Carbon Credit Fund established by EBRD and European Investment Bank, with the aim to implement carbon credits under the Kyoto Protocol, which covers the reduction of carbon emissions from factories in the period from 2008 to 2012.

EcoLogic Development Fund

The carbon stored though these efforts generates carbon credits, which are then sold through the World Bank's BioCarbon Fund to countries seeking to meet their greenhouse emission targets under the Kyoto Protocol.

Geography of Liberia

Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Tropical Timber 83, Tropical Timber 94, Wetlands

Graciela Chichilnisky

She is best known for proposing and designing the carbon credit emissions trading market underlying the Kyoto Protocol, and was the lead author on the 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that won the 2007 Nobel Prize, and reputedly even created the term "sustainable development".

K. C. Irving

Irving Oil, J.D. Irving and all subsidiary companies are actively supporting Canada's ratification and implementation of the Kyoto Protocol, since the family has invested considerable funds into environmental controls and alternative energy for its operations and wishes to capitalize on these investments at the expense of its slow-to-respond publicly traded competitors.

Kyogami

The game was designed by Michel Cruciani, in France, between 2002 and 2005, in order to explain the implications of the implementation of the Kyoto Protocol by the European Union, specifically the Carbon Dioxide Quotas.

LCD television

As NF3 was not in widespread use at the time, it was not made part of the Kyoto Protocols and has been deemed "the missing greenhouse gas".

Leipzig Declaration

The most obvious difference was its focus on the Kyoto Protocol, as the Kyoto conference was in the process of being finalised.

Natural Resources Stewardship Project

The Natural Resources Stewardship Project is a Canadian non-profit organization that presents itself as undertaking "a proactive grassroots campaign to counter the Kyoto Protocol and other greenhouse gas reduction schemes while promoting sensible climate change policy." The group was founded in October 2005.

Tacoma Streetcar

In April 2006, Tacoma City Council Members approved a resolution that affirmed the City's efforts to reduce greenhouse gases and curb global warming in accordance with the Kyoto Protocol.

Warwick McKibbin

They argue that Kyoto Protocol based Carbon trading systems are too inflexible/brittle to attract developing countries (particularly China & India).


Barry F. Cooper

In 2006, Cooper became involved with a non-profit organization, Friends of Science, which openly criticized the Kyoto Protocol and the science behind it.

BBC Box

; (empty): from Southampton Maritime, England to a "dry port" at Coatbridge, Scotland (by rail, behind Freightliner 66594 NYK Spirit of Kyoto)

Carbon Disclosure Project

International agreements such as the Kyoto Protocol have proved problematic, and individual governments have been reluctant to develop stringent national limits on emissions for fear of big companies relocating their factories and jobs to nations with laxer regulatory regimes.

Tavau Teii

Teii proposed possible changes to the Kyoto Protocol to be discussed at the Bali Climate Change Conference held between the 3rd and 15th of December 2007, citing the involvement of NIC countries such as India and China as an example.