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...REVERSED. TYPE 1 DIABETES in an unnamed 27-year-old woman; by transplanting insulin-making cells from her mother's pancreas; in Kyoto, Japan. Although the use of pancreatic cells from organs of dead donors has been successful since 2000, this is the first time doctors have operated using living cells. The breakthrough could prove crucial in countries such as Japan, in which organ donation is uncommon...
Thanks to backroom deal-making between the European Union and the Russian Federation—and despite persistent U.S. intransigence—the Kyoto Protocol on Global Climate Change finally came into force this February. Many believe that the resuscitation of the Kyoto deal is a momentous as well as joyful turning point in global climate policy...
...Third Conference of the Parties to this treaty met in Kyoto in 1997 and produced what is known as the Kyoto Protocol, which put forth targets and a timetable for emission reductions by industrialized nations. This protocol went into effect in February 2005 following ratification by Russia. The current administration of President George W. Bush has said that it does not intend to submit this Protocol to the Senate for ratification. Obviously, the effectiveness of the Protocol will be greatly diminished without the participation of the United States, since our nation is responsible for about 25 percent of global anthropogenic...
Despite popular misrepresentation to the contrary, full implementation of the Kyoto Protocol was never anticipated to be sufficient to prevent potentially harmful disruption of Earth’s climate. Rather it is the first step along this path. With every passing day the challenge of meeting the objective of the Protocol is made more difficult but certainly not impossible. Consider the impressive list of major corporations, starting with British Petroleum, and more recently Shell and others, and the hundreds of cities that are demonstrating what many analyses have indicated, namely, that the Kyoto targets can be met without incurring serious...
Negotiated in 1997, the Kyoto Protocol had sought to halt the growth of carbon emissions in the industrialized nations. The Protocol’s original goal was to reduce, by the year 2010, the total emissions of these industrialized countries by a total of around 5 percent below their 1990 emissions. Any reduction in global emissions is, of course, commendable. However, it was always clear that even if implemented fully, the Kyoto targets would make the most minor of dents in this most major of problems. With the world’s largest carbon emitter, the United States, still steadfast...