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KyotoUSA was a grassroots environmental organization formed in November 2004 by Berkeley residents Tom and Jane Kelly. The organization received fiscal sponsorship from the Sequoia Foundation, a California non-profit organization.
The name KyotoUSA was chosen to convey a message to the national and international community that citizens of the United States shared their concerns about climate change and would act locally to address its causes - despite the U.S. Government’s refusal to sign the Kyoto Protocol or to make any meaningful effort to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions.
The initial mission of KyotoUSA was to encourage cities across the United States to formally adopt the principles of the Kyoto Protocol and commit to making significant reductions in their own greenhouse gas emissions.
An additional goal was to publicize KyotoUSA’s grassroots-based approach to local and regional greenhouse gas emissions reductions and to encourage others with greater capacity, including Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels; the City and Borough of Juneau, Alaska; Earthjustice; the Rainforest Action Network; California Climate Action Network and others to magnify the idea and spread its message across the U.S.
History
editOn January 18, 2005 KyotoUSA succeeded in having the Berkeley City Council unanimously endorse the Kyoto Protocol via Resolution No. 62,783-N.S..[1] and pledge to exceed the emissions reductions laid out in the Kyoto Protocol. KyotoUSA successfully lobbied other Bay Area cities, e.g., Santa Cruz[2] to take similar actions.
In Spring 2005, Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels adopted KyotoUSA’s Kyoto Protocol endorsement concept as the basis for a resolution he submitted to the U.S. Conference of Mayors for the purpose of establishing the U.S. Mayors’ Climate Protection Agreement which 1,066 U.S. Mayors joined by late 2009[3]
On February 14, 2005, KyotoUSA held a carbon neutral press conference at City Hall in Berkeley entitled “Berkeley’s Valentine to the Planet”[4]. The solar-powered event celebrated the February 16, 2005 implementation of the Kyoto Protocol as well as local cities’ commitments to reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The press conference sent a message to the international community that U.S. citizens and their cities were joining the effort to address climate change. The keynote speaker was United Nations Ambassador and Vice Chairman of the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) Enele Sopoaga, representing the island nation of Tuvalu in the South Pacific. Sheila Watt-Cloutier, Chair of the Inuit Circumpolar Conference sent a heartfelt letter of appreciation.
In April 2005, at the invitation of Nobel Peace prize nominee and 2015 Right Livelihood award winner, Sheila Watt-Cloutier, KyotoUSA participated in a 3-day climate conference hosted by the Inuit Circumpolar Conference in Iqaluit/Nunavut, Canada. The conference presented both traditional and scientific findings on the impacts of climate change in the Arctic. The event, entitled “Arctic Wisdom,” included a human aerial drawing created by the Inuit and conference participants on frozen Frobisher Bay depicting the words “Arctic Warning.”
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edit- ^ https://records.cityofberkeley.info/PublicAccess/api/Document/ATvpuO03P9x3aTYZRHBkGYf33GgtaoaVOnsWI3WPMC9et20J6SEA9dIO5L%C3%89hqwkVOB%C3%89YP%C3%81MPix55SyULbNcPR94%3D/
- ^ https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Santa_Cruz,_CA_Endorsing_the_Kyoto_Protocol
- ^ https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna8291649
- ^ https://www.berkeleycitizen.org/community/community12.htm
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