Word: kyoto
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Global Forum in Kyoto, Mikhail Gorbachev talked with TIME senior writer Eugene Linden...
Gorbachev launched the Green Cross last spring in Kyoto, Japan, at a meeting of the Global Forum, a gathering of lawmakers, religious leaders, activists and scientists. His intellectually adventurous speech was at times contradictory and unrealistic, but it moved far beyond the bland platitudes about "sustainable development" and "global conventions" that dominate international discussions of environmental issues. Saying things that would mean political suicide in most of the industrial world, he attacked such sacred cows as development, progress and the current definitions of material happiness...
...Norway lets the harpoons fly once again, it will be an act of defiance toward the International Whaling Commission, which reaffirmed a seven-year-old hunting ban at a meeting last week in Kyoto, Japan. Norway, along with Japan, had urged member nations of the IWC to end the moratorium but lost an 18-to-6 vote...
...former Soviet President made the transition to environmental pitchman in Kyoto, Japan, at a ceremony sponsored by the New York City-based Global Forum and attended by such political and spiritual luminaries as former U.N. Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar and Mother Teresa. Now that he is a full-time Green, Gorbachev may have a lot to atone for. The Soviet Union committed a long string of environmental outrages during his watch, including the world's worst nuclear accident at Chernobyl...
...biotechnology production plants, rubber plantations and the beach in Malaysia; visit the Hsin-Chu Science Park in Taiwan; tour Guangzhou (Canton) in Southern China with the mayor to several of Southern China's special economic zones and factories and stay with a Japanese history professor and his family in Kyoto, Japan...