[asia-apec 417] Call for Help: Urge JPN Gov to cut CO2 emission

[TACHIBANA Masahiko]

Tomo, now in Kyoto to support computer communication of NGO's attending
in Kyoto Conference COP3 (discussing about the prevention of Global
Warming), asked me to post the following mail.

TACHIBANA Masahiko aka tattsan
JCA-NET

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Please post the following appeal to the appropriate places.

Thank you for your help in advance,

Tomo
JCA-NET

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Dear friends,

Kiko Forum, a coalition of Japanese NGOs for COP3 are collecting
on-line signature to pressure Japanese governmet to take a
concrete positive step in the COP3.

You can send signature from the following Web page,
http://www.jca.ax.apc.org/kiko97/sign.html

If you don't have access to www page, send your signature to
kiko97 at jca.ax.apc.org

You can find a form at the bottom of this mesage.

Thank you in advance

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To:

The Honorable Ryutaro Hashimoto

Prime Minister of Japan




December 1997



 An Appeal to Japan's Prime Minister to Take Strong Leadership to Ensure
    the Adoption of a
    Reduction Emission Protocol

 AN INTERNET PETITION

The Third Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention
on Climate Change (CoP3) has begun. This Conference will decide on
a protocol of goals and a schedule for the reduction of carbon
dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions. If global warming is
to be brought down to a level at which it will not have a
significant effect on climate, the protocol adopted at this
conference must set the implementation schedule for the near
future (for example, by 2005), and require a major reduction (at
least 20% less than 1990 levels).

However, the process of drawing up and adopting this protocol is
not progressing. At this rate, we cannot rule out the possibility
that the CoP3 will end without having decided anything.

The major obstacle impeding progress is the passive attitude of a
few developed countries such as the United States and Japan. Above
all is the Japanese government's loophole-ridden proposal, which
suggests that actual obligations under the present convention can
be deferred ten years into the future, and which is being roundly
criticized by other government delegations and non-governmental
organizations (NGOs).

In view of the seriousness of the effects global warming, it is
not an exaggeration to say that the survival of the human race
depends on the success or failure of this conference.

In order to ensure that the CoP3 will adopt an effective reduction
protocol, we ask that the Prime Minister of Japan himself take
part in the Conference, and show strong leadership by calling on
the conference to adopt such a reduction protocol.

 Kiko Forum


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