About Us
KyotoUSA volunteers live and work in the San Francisco Bay Area and have come together to urge the cities we live in, and the institutions and people who make up our local communities, to take real, substantive action to address the causes of global warming and the climate disruption that it causes.
KyotoUSA believes that the time has come for a concerted effort by local residents to address the issue of global warming where we live. It is our hope that these efforts will encourage similar responses from citizens throughout the United States, and that they will encourage our government leaders at the federal level to join the industrialized nations of the world in ratifying and implementing an international climate change treaty that goes beyond the empty rhetoric that has for so long hampered any significant effort to reduce global carbon emissions.
At the end of 2004, KyotoUSA and the City of Berkeley took a new and creative step toward getting US cities to identify the local sources of GHGs and implement reduction measures. We worked together to bring a Resolution before the City Council in January 2005 to "ratify" the Kyoto Protocol and to establish a goal of reducing the City's greenhouse gas emissions to a "climate - neutral" level. With Berkeley's formal endorsement of the Protocol and the ensuing national and international attention it generated, cities across the country began endorsing the US Conference of Mayors Climate Protection Agreement and are now working diligently with organizations like ICLEI to reduce local sources of GHG emissions.
Our current focus is on getting renewable energy systems up on our public schools (at no cost to their General fund) and helping them find ways to reduce their overall energy consumption. Click on the link to find all the details of this effort we call the HELiOS Project (Helios Energy Lights Our Schools).
Please join KyotoUSA in engaging in actions, both personal and civic, to reduce carbon emissions, and together, we will bring the planet's climate back into balance!
