JFS Newsletter No.71 (July 2008) "Thanks to the world's efforts, carbon emissions now remain within the capacity of global carbon sink, and the global warming crisis has ...

JFS Newsletter No.69 (May 2008) The Group of Eight (G8) Summit, to be held from July 7, 2008, in Toyako, Hokkaido, Japan, is being popularly called the environment summit, be...

JFS Newsletter No.65 (January 2008) With global warming intensifying, a broad rad the world, and Japan has been no exception. Humanity must take two types of measures to reduce the impacts of global warming: mitigation and adaptation. Mitigatio...

JFS Newsletter No.59 (July 2007) Background The global warming issue was among the major topics at the thirty-third G8 Summit held in Heiligendamm, Germany, in June 2007. As a summary of the meeting, German Chan...

JFS Newsletter No.56 (April 2007) CO2 Emissions from Japanese Households Increasing Two years have passed since the Kyoto Protocol came into force in February 2005 as an instrument to fig...

JFS Newsletter No.39 (November 2005) Under the Kyoto Protocol, which entered into force in February 2005, Japan is required to achieve its target of a 6 percent reducti...

JFS Newsletter No.37 (September 2005) http://www.env.go.jp/policy/hakusyo/hakusyo.php3?kid=222 (Japanese only) Introduction Japan's Ministry of the Environment issued its annual White Paper o...

JFS Newsletter No.3 (November 2002) One of the most pressing global environmental problems facing humanity is global warming. The implications for humans and indeed all life ...