Staff writer
The recent negotiations in Bonn, Germany, on global warming revealed that nothing can be achieved unless a high-level political judgment is made, says attorney Mie Asaoka, executive director of Kiko Forum '97, a coalition of Japanese environmental groups.
The forum, consisting of about 200 nongovernmental organizations, is aimed at initiating citizens' efforts to reduce gas emissions that cause global warming. It is also designed to help bring about an effective reduction protocol at the December meeting in Kyoto of the Third Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, or COP3.