Bio-diesel Project Utilizing Waste Cooking Oil and Efforts to Address Climate Change at Local Government Level

Abstract

Based on past experience with international environmental cooperation, the City of Kyoto has conducted a bio-diesel project that utilizes waste cooking oil. The project aims to address both climate change mitigation concerns and local environmental protection (co-benefits). It also provides a model for a uniquely new kind of effort that can address the problem of climate change while at the same time involving citizens and the private sector. This is done with the incorporating of carbon-offsetting practices into the project.