Tag - climate-change

 
 

CLIMATE CHANGE

COMMENTARY / World
Sep 30, 2015
Islam's important statement on climate change
The Islamic Declaration on Climate Change calls on the world's 1.6 billion Muslims be responsible activists for the welfare of the planet.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 26, 2015
Building global climate trust is needed now
In less than 80 days, world leaders will have the opportunity to strike a once-in-a-generation agreement in the fight against climate change. The United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris in December could mark a turning point in world history: unanimous recognition of the need to act to prevent...
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Sep 26, 2015
China's climate actions turn the tables on American deniers
Donald Trump was succinct when asked how the United States should respond to climate change. "It's not a big problem at all," the leader in opinion polls for the Republican presidential nomination told a radio talk show host on Monday. "If you look at China, they're doing nothing about it."
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Sep 24, 2015
Francis at White House lauds Obama, embraces GOP taboos: environment, poverty, immigration
Pope Francis on Wednesday urged the United States to help tackle climate change and touched on other divisive U.S. political issues such as immigration and economic inequality on his first visit to the world's richest nation.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 23, 2015
Securing a sustainable future
The decisions taken this year, at the Sustainable Development Goals summit and at the climate conference in Paris in December, will have a lasting impact on our planet's future.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 23, 2015
Pope Francis remains flamboyantly fact-free
The pope's ideas would devastate the poor on whose behalf he purports to speak — if his policy prescriptions were not as implausible as his social diagnoses are shrill.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 21, 2015
Tokyo at high risk of devastating floods, experts say
It's just a matter of time before Tokyo is struck by the same magnitude of flooding that devastated parts of the northern Kanto region this month.
WORLD / Science & Health
Sep 12, 2015
Burning all fossil fuels could thaw Antarctica, raise sea level almost 60 meters: study
Burning all the world's fossil fuel reserves could thaw the entire Antarctic ice sheet and push up sea levels by nearly 60 meters (200 feet), an international study said on Friday.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 4, 2015
Who will suffer most from climate change?
When it comes to climate change, it is the world's poorest farmers who will suffer the most.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 1, 2015
Obama urges reaching climate deal in Paris 'while we still can'
President Barack Obama said on Monday that world leaders must agree to cut carbon emissions at a U.N. summit in December because the climate is changing faster than efforts to curb global warming.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 11, 2015
Curbing global warming: mission impossible?
There is a 'mission impossible' quality to curbing global warming, though few say it so openly. The dependence of economic growth on fossil fules seems to strong to overcome.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 10, 2015
Heed Pope Francis' call to protect the Amazon
When world leaders meet at the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Paris later this year to craft a response to the challenges of global warming, they should put in place policies to protect tropical forests and the people who make them their home.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 3, 2015
No agnostics in the climate foxhole
Some 97 percent of scientists endorse the position that humans are causing global warming. A consensus of such magnitude is as close as we ever get to a recognized scientific fact.
EDITORIALS
Aug 1, 2015
Health gains lost to climate change
All of the impressive scientific and medical gains of modern civilization are in danger of being lost because of the effects of climate change and environmental degradation.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jul 30, 2015
Japan's action plan to fight climate change
The Foreign Ministry says Japan's ambitious goals signal its determination to lead the way for the reduction of emissions globally.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jul 22, 2015
Japan's 2030 climate goals will clash with planned investments in coal
With countries from China to Brazil lining up to showcase efforts to rein in pollution that causes global warming, developers of coal power plants in Japan may find themselves increasingly under pressure.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 13, 2015
Climate change conference's smoke and mirrors
The story that the producers of the 2015 Paris Climate Change Conference will ask viewers to believe relies on technologies that are no more effective than smoke and mirrors.

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Wozme, founded by dancer and choreographer Wakaba Kohei, is composed of Kana Kitty, Ami Ishii, Akane Watanabe and Natsuki. Its aim is to inject elegance and beauty, traits traditionally associated with femininity, into the sometimes grotesque art form of butoh dance.
Wozme, an all-women dance troupe, wants to move the needle in butoh