Kyoto Protocol

Examples of Kyoto Protocol in the following topics:

• The Environment

  • The Bush administration was often criticized for discounting the human influence on global warming and refusing to sign the Kyoto Protocol.
  • In March of 2001, shortly after Bush took office, the Bush administration announced that it would not implement the Kyoto Protocol, an international treaty signed in 1997 in Kyoto, Japan that would require nations to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions.
  • The Kyoto Protocol entered into force on 16 February 2005.
  • In June of 2005, State Department papers showed the Bush administration thanking oil company Exxon executives for the company's "active involvement" in helping to determine climate change policy, including the U.S. stance on Kyoto.

• Changing Human Behavior in Response to Biodiversity Loss

  • In relation to global warming, The Kyoto Protocol, an international agreement that came out of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change that committed countries to reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 2012, was ratified by some countries, but spurned by others.
  • Two important countries in terms of their potential impact that did not ratify the Kyoto Protocol were the United States and China.
  • The intended replacement for the Kyoto Protocol has not materialized because governments cannot agree on timelines and benchmarks.

• Oil

  • For example, oil executives were invited to consult on issues such as the U.S. position on the Kyoto Protocol and the involvement in Iraq.

• Environmental Policy

  • For example, when the U.S. pulled out of its obligations under the Kyoto Protocol there was a great deal of international criticism.

• Climate Change

  • The Kyoto Protocol was one such treaty, first introduced in Kyoto, Japan in 2005.

• Corporate Social Responsibility and sustainable development defined

  • Kyoto Protocol was agreed on in 1997 to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2012.
  • A total of 1968 countries and the EEC have ratified the protocol (envroliteracy.org, 2007).

• Energy Policy

  • The United States had resisted endorsing the Kyoto Protocol, preferring to let the market drive CO2 reductions to mitigate global warming, which will require CO2 emission taxation .

• Rinpa School Painting in the Edo Period

  • In 1615, Hon'ami Kōetsu founded an artistic community of craftsmen, supported by wealthy merchant patrons of the Nichiren Buddhist sect at Takagamine in northeastern Kyoto.
  • Kōetsu's collaborator, Tawaraya Sōtatsu, maintained an atelier in Kyoto and produced commercial paintings such as decorative fans and folding screens.
  • Two of his most famous works include the folding screens "Wind and Thunder Gods" (風 Fūjin Raijin-zu), located in Kennin-ji temple in Kyoto, and "Matsushima" (松) at the Freer Gallery in Washington, DC.
  • The Rinpa school was revived in the Genroku era (元 1688–1704) by Ogata Kōrin and his younger brother Ogata Kenzan, sons of a prosperous Kyoto textile merchant.
  • Kenzan remained a potter in Kyoto until after Kōrin's death in 1716, when he began to paint professionally.

• Zen Ink Painting

  • The Ashikaga clan took control of the shogunate and moved its headquarters back to Kyoto, to the Muromachi district of the city.
  • The establishment of the great Zen monasteries in Kamakura and Kyoto had a major impact on the visual arts.
  • An important landscape painter during this period was Tenshō Shūbun, a monk at the Kyoto temple of Shōkoku-ji who traveled to Korea and studied under Chinese painters.
  • He returned to Japan in 1404 and settled in Kyoto, then the capital city.
  • A famous example is the scroll "Catching a Catfish with a Gourd" (Hyōnen-zu 瓢), located at Taizō-in, Myōshin-ji, Kyoto.

• Zen Dry Rock Gardens

  • However, in Kyoto in the 14th and 15th century, a new kind of garden appeared at the important zen temples.
  • The first garden to begin the transition to this new style is considered by many experts to be Saihō-ji, The Temple of the Perfumes of the West—popularly known as Koke-dera, the Moss Garden—in the western part of Kyoto.
  • The most famous of all zen gardens in Kyoto is Ryōan-ji, built in the late 15th century where, for the first time, the zen garden became purely abstract.
  • Ryōan-ji (late 15th century) in Kyoto, Japan, a famous example of a zen garden
  • The most famous of all zen gardens in Kyoto is Ryōan-ji, built in the late 15th century where for the first time the zen garden became purely abstract