Fox Chase Cancer Center's Alfred Knudson Jr. named 2004 Kyoto Prize winner
Cancer researcher Alfred G. Knudson Jr., M.D., Ph.D., (pronounced ka-nud'-son) of Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, Pa., has been named winner of a prestigious Kyoto Prize for 2004. The Kyoto Prize is considered among the world's leading awards for lifetime achievement and is given to those who have "contributed significantly to mankind's betterment." Knudson will receive a cash gift of ab...This release is also available in <A HREF="http://www.eurekalert.org/staticrel.php?view=mkab121203de...">German ......The Kyoto protocol and short-term reduction targets for greenhouse gas emissions are an important first step in tackling climate change. However, these need to go hand in hand with long-term commitments. Model-based estimates up to the year 3000 show that a gradual transition to a...College is first to be Kyoto Protocol compliant
(Portland, Ore.)--For the cost of a movie and popcorn for each student, Lewis & Clark College has become the first campus in the nation to comply with the greenhouse gas emissions targets called for in the Kyoto Protocol.... ...The achievement means that the campus has reduced emissions of the gases that contribute to global warming to 7 percent below what it produced in 1990. The reduction was...ESA providing Kyoto estimates of French Guianas tropical forests
Like all the so-called "Annex I" signatories to the Kyoto Protocol, France is required to measure and reduce its overall greenhouse gas emissions. But France is also the only such country possessing tropical forests, most of which are in French Guiana. ...Tropical forests represent a vast store of carbon, while their deforestation represents a significant source of anthropogenic (man-made) green...Kyoto's global warming controls could harm forests
. . To help reduce global warming, the Kyoto Protocol encourages . countries to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere by . planting more trees. But the Protocol fails to consider . conservation, and countries could meet their commitment by . replacing mature forests with rapidly-growing plantations. . . "Replacement of old forests with plantations is a 'perverse . incentive' of the Kyoto Pr...Global change conference sets the scene for next round of Kyoto Protocol talks
...Throughout the world, scientists are seeing clear signs that the Earth is rapidly changing. Tropical glaciers are melting fast and some will disappear within 15 years if current warming trends continue. Fifty percent of the land surface has been modified and more than half the worlds accessible freshwater is being used directly or indirectly by humans. These and many other changes are putting....September 15, 2000 - LAXENBURG, Austria - IIASA recently released its .latest research study, Full Carbon Account for Russia, which shows .serious flaws in the Kyoto Protocol, a strategy adopted at the Earth .Summit in Rio in 1992 as the way to control greenhouse gases and curb .global warming. The Kyoto Protocol calls for significant reductions - .225 million tons from the 1990 level between....CAMBRIDGE, Mass -- The first comprehensive assessment of economic, atmospheric,.climatic, and ecosystem effects of the Kyoto Protocol on Climate Change will hit.newsstands in Nature's October 7 issue. The study, by researchers from MIT and.the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, shows that a strategy for.controlling multiple gases associated with greenhouse warming could reduce.control...