| Rengo Comments that the UNFCC's Agreement Is Significant to the Protection of the Global Warming (19 December 1997) |
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General Secretary Sasamori announced the following comment on a protocol adopted by the Third Session of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) on 11 December: |
| * Although there had been misgivings about the conclusion of an agreement due to the big gap in their assertion between industrialised and developing countries, it should be highly evaluated that the protocol was concluded after a series of discussions. The protocol is significant to the protection of the global environment and a sustainable development on the global scale. |
| * The protocol requires each government to determine an action programme in order for concrete policies to be implemented toward the achievement of the targeted reduction. The concrete policies should be feasible for the implementation and also should be determined based on the consensus of the people. It is unavoidable that the reduction should be subject to all the areas of economic activities, such as industries, transport and public welfare. The industrial circle should utilise the accumulation of its effort in reducing carbon dioxide discharged in order to further develop new technologies on the condition of a sustainable development. On the other hand, the people should try not to waste too much resource in daily life and each individual should make his/her own effort in reducing the discharge of carbon dioxide. The Government should assume overall responsibility for going on with the programme for the reduction. |
| * Rengo evaluates the adoption of the protocol as a new step toward the prevention of the global warming. The existing social system of mass production, consumption and abandonment should be reviewed and shifted to the circular system. As the reduction of carbon dioxide requires the effort of all the people, including the members of Rengo. We should play an active role in the reduction in the everyday life and the industrial level. |
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