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A city in Japan on the island of Honshu that once served as Japan’s capital.
The Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change -- An amendment to the international treaty on climate change, assigning mandatory targets for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions to signatory nations.
The former capital of Japan; now a prefecture on Honshū, Japan.
The city and Kyōto prefecture, Japan.
From Japanese 京都 (kyōto, “capital”), from Middle Chinese 京都 (kjæng-tu, “capital [of a country]”) (compare Mandarin 京都 (jīngdū)).
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From Japanese 京都 (kyōto, “capital”), from Middle Chinese 京都 (kjæng-tu "capital (of a country)").
However, our efforts to stabilize the climate will need, over time, to become far more ambitious than the Kyoto Protocol.
The profile of the seat is taken from a feature found on a wooden balustrade at Katsura Imperial Villa in Kyoto.
It is an initiative to challenge the oil industry throughout the 100 day countdown to Kyoto climate conference in december 1997.
The implication is that Kyoto is good coin and if put into effect can actually prevent an ecological disaster.
Gentleman has rather glossed over what I actually said, which is that we will meet our Kyoto targets.
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