The Environment Ministers of BASIC countries — Brazil, South Africa, India and China — will frame a common position ahead of the crucial Durban climate conference due next month on several issues...
Kyoto Gov Keiji Yamada has asked the culture ministry to help get Japanese cuisine listed as a UNESCO-designated Intangible Cultural Heritage, following in the footsteps…
A meeting of four of the world's fastest-growing carbon emitters on Sunday ahead of a January 31 deadline for countries to submit their action plans to fight climate change may discuss a climate fund for poorer nations.
In line with the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) proviso of the Kyoto Protocol, facility owner SN Aboitiz Power Inc. (SNAP) clinches the first major milestone that can bring its 75-megawatt Ambuklao hydropower plant closer into registration prospects for carbon trading.
While many students were worrying about studying for semester finals, NDSU junior Megan Constans was overseas attending the Copenhagen Climate Council in Denmark, representing the youth voice of North Dakota in the push for greener energy and an international replacement and follow-up for the Kyoto Protocol.
While the progression of Japanese art within the last decade is being celebrated at the "Garden of Painting" exhibition at The National Museum of Art in Osaka, other galleries in the area, such as the Tomio Koyama Gallery, Kyoto, and the YOD Gallery, Osaka, have launched group exhibitions proposing directions for the next generation.
Japan's lion dances, and there are about 7,800 of them, all have their own style but the purpose is mainly the same. The shishi (lion) dances act as a prayer to ward off evil spirits. The National Theater will host five sacred shishi performances from 1 p.m. and 4: 30 p.m. on Jan. 30. The dances are from Nagano, Hyogo, Kyoto, Gifu and Mie prefectures in the Chubu and Kinki regions of the country.
Nara Prefecture, which once prospered as home to the ancient capital of Heijokyo (710-784), has been sidelined by neighboring Kyoto as a cultural heritage and tourist destination. Hosting a plethora of historical buildings, Buddhist statues and spacious Nara Park where more than 1,000 deer roam free, Nara has long been a place for a day trip either before or after a longer stay in Kyoto ...
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates & CAIRO----Masdar, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Mubadala Development Company, today announced it signed an agreement with the Egyptian Sugar and Integrated Industries Company to develop a fuel-switch project under the guidelines of the Kyoto Protocol’s Clean Development Mechanism .
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