Well attestedNamed from the place
Kyoto Protocol
noun · first attested 1997
Treaties take the name of whichever city happened to host the meeting.
The 1997 treaty setting binding greenhouse gas reduction targets for industrialized countries.
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- Well attestedThe place link is the standard scholarly account.
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Kyoto Protocol
Delegates adopted the text at the climate conference held in Kyoto in December 1997, and diplomatic practice names an instrument after its venue, as with Montreal, Helsinki, and Paris. It entered force only in 2005, and the United States, which signed it, never ratified.
Japan
All 18 entries 17 more words from Japan
japanThe lacquer is simply the country, used as a verb.JapansatsumaThe orange is named for a former Japanese province.Satsuma ProvinceMishimaThe inlaid pottery is named for a Japanese city's almanac.MishimaMinamata diseaseAn industrial disaster gave a Japanese city's name to a disease.MinamataKobe beefThe cattle are not from Kobe; the foreigners who ate them were.KobeabukumaliteIt came out of a vertical pipe of pegmatite only sixty meters across that is packed with yttrium minerals.Abukuma RiveraniliteMachine matching regularly sends this name to the ruined Armenian city of Ani; the real Ani is a copper mine in northern Japan.Ani minebicchuliteIt was described simultaneously from a Japanese limestone skarn and a basalt contact in County Antrim.Bitchū