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Kyoto News.

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  Robo Garage Creates Awesome Robots

  By Kirk Bromley | Sat Oct 31, 2009 11:00 AM ET

  and more advanced mechanical buggers who, when you see them, you're like "Whoa, that's so like a human." Or something like that. One company, out of Kyoto University, which continues to pump out awesome automatons is Robo Garage. You can see a video of their newest electrical dude below. Don't yo Read More

  More like this in: Japan, Robots, Kyoto University, Life & Style, Asia, Gadgets, Cutting-edge, Culture
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  Cabinet Holds Session Under Water

  By Darragh Worland | Sat Oct 17, 2009 5:13 PM ET

  world are drafting similar documents ahead of the U.N. climate change conference in Copenhagen this December where global leaders will sign a new Kyoto Protocol, setting standards for the reduction of greenhouse gases in years to come. Nasheed has promised to make the Maldives, a collection o Read More

  More like this in: Climate change, Global Warming, Emissions, The Associated Press, Greenhouse Gas, Copenhagen, Kyoto Protocol, Maldives, Polar Ice Caps, U.N. Climate Change Conference, Indian Ocean
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  Get In Bed with Kofi Annan

  By David Jenison | Wed Oct 7, 2009 8:00 AM ET

  has been created to demand decisive action from our world leaders. I believe it can become the Band Aid for the internet generation.""The next Kyoto agreement is hugely important to get right because the last one got it so wrong," added Laurent. "The single greatest contribution to th Read More

  More like this in: Climate change, Celebrities, Australia, Planet, Pollution, Greenhouse Gas, Copenhagen, Deforestation, Denmark, Nobel Peace Prize, Global Green
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  China Steps Up on Carbon Credits

  By John Casey | Tue Aug 11, 2009 3:48 PM ET

  neutral by purchasing credits in the country's fledgling voluntary carbon trading market." Since it is categorized as a developing country in the Kyoto Protocol, China is not subject at present to carbon reduction emissions, though it is said to be the largest greenhouse gas emitter in th Read More

  More like this in: China, Carbon Emissions, Pollution, Greenhouse Gas, Kyoto Protocol, Tax Credit, Tax Credits
• Service With a (Tested) Smile

  By Jimmy Langman | Thu Jul 9, 2009 12:14 PM ET

  to the Manichi Daily News. Employees begin their day by grinning into a camera and a computer screen where a smile-measuring software made by Kyoto, Japan-based Omron Corporation analyzes their face, paying close attention to details like “eye movements, lip curls and wrinkles.” Th Read More

  More like this in: Michael Jackson, Japan, George Orwell, Charlie Chaplin, World, Business, Asia, Employment
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  Ticked Off Emissions

  By Chaniga Vorasarun | Fri Jan 23, 2009 3:35 PM ET

  investment and research business and is based on measurements developed by MIT scientists on all long-lived greenhouse gases covered under the Kyoto and Montreal Protocols. The hope is that just seeing that huge number clicking upwards will spur the public to action. Non- New York Cit Read More

  More like this in: New York, New York City, Climate change, Madison Square Garden, Kyoto Protocol, Business, Science, Good Ideas, Environment
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  Rainforest nations join to fight deforestation

  By Sebastian Clayton | Tue Nov 18, 2008 4:58 PM ET

  group is called REDD (Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation) and wants to include deforestation parameters in the next version of the Kyoto Protocol. The group will propose twenty projects to cut carbon emmissions that derive from deforestation at their meeting in Poland. Rea Read More

  More like this in: United Nations, Poland, Deforestation, Kyoto Protocol, Life & Style
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  LCD Monitors Far From Green?

  By Dan Estabrook | Thu Jul 10, 2008 12:18 PM ET

  climate impact 17,000 times greater than that of CO2. Dubbed the "missing greenhouse gas," the research came far too late for NF3 for even the Kyoto Protocol to monitor it -- LCD devices came into the market after the protocol was negotiated in the late 1990s. With Americans switching t Read More

  More like this in: Energy, Eco-Friendly, Emissions, Television, Carbon Dioxide (CO2), Greenhouse Gas, Kyoto Protocol