Environmental Seminar on Global Warming and the Kyoto Protocol Held by NYK
July 25, 2007
Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha (NYK; head office: Tokyo; president: Koji Miyahara) hosted an environmental seminar at its head office on July 12, 2007, on the theme of global warming. Satoshi Hashimoto, a senior researcher on the subject of global warming at Mitsubishi Research Institute Inc. (MIR; head office: Tokyo; president: Masayuki Tanaka), served as guest lecturer.
With an audience of NYK employees, the seminar covered various issues related to global warming, including the Kyoto protocol, the post-Kyoto protocol process, carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions trading, and the future impact of these issues on the world maritime industry.
This year, NYK joined the executive committee of the CO2 Diet Declaration, a three-year-old voluntary initiative to save energy and cut CO2 emissions. With the support of Japan?s Ministry of the Environment and Tokyo Electric Power Corp., participating businesses and individual citizens commit to emission-reducing changes in their daily routines to help arrest global warming.
The Kyoto protocol was adopted at the third session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP3), held on December 11, 1997, at the International Conference Hall in Kyoto, Japan. The protocol is based on the Framework Convention on Climate Change.
The NYK Group as a whole continues to work toward protection of the global environment, together with its affiliate companies, by conducting seminars at its offices in Japan, among other activities.
| Date | July 12, 2007 |
| Lecturer | Mr. Satoshi Hashimoto, Senior Researcher Global Warming Countermeasure Research Group Global Environmental Research Headquarters Mitsubishi Research Institute Inc. |
| Theme | “How the International Maritime Industry is Responding to Global Warming: Overview of the Kyoto Protocol and CO2 Emission Credits” Subthemes:
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