International Hemp Environment Forum Kyoto Event

English below: 

「第１回世界麻環境フォーラム」は２０１６年７月２日、国立京都国際会館にてHemp Environment Forum という国際ネットワークの立上げとして開催されるもので、ネットワークの公式なキックオフイベントとなります。
２回目以降は開催地国を変えて国際年次イベントとする予定でいます。

ネットワークは世界中の、まさに５大陸をまたいだ参加者による、麻農業者や麻関連企業、麻や環境の専門家グループのネットワークです。
今年の１月に日本を起点に動きが始まり繋がったFacebook上に存在するネットワークです。現在の参加者は２５国以上の国から７０名です。
「世界麻環境フォーラム」Hemp Environmental Forum の結成の目的は「持続可能な未来の創造」です。その為に「麻」Hempの有用性を活用していく為の情報交換の場となっています。この度の「第１回世界麻環境フォーラム」ができる限りの顔合わせの場となります。
達成目的として「国際麻環境基金」の立上げを視野に入れております。環境貢献度の高い麻を活用したプロジェクトや、伝統の麻の技術や文化を保存・継承していくプロジェクトを助成、推進していく為のものです。

This is a whole earth project, from 5 continents, covering earth. No matter in which region or country you live, what jobs or business you are doing, rich or poor or whatsoever, global climate change you are facing to is real. As long as we depends on toxic energy that is killing us, there is no sustainable future. It's time to be aware that Hemp is the champion biomass with its versatile usage, it's so versatile that it can substitute to fossil fuel which causes a lot of environmental problems and also substitute to precious forests which are giving us oxygen that all the animals on earth need by all means. Destruction of forests are exigency level too.

 At "International Hemp Environment Forum", in order to get aware of the value of Hemp and other biomass resources internationally worldwide, and implement to realize the sustainability, starting at KICC where Kyoto protocol was signed which international society has agreed that there ARE environmental problems planetary to share and to have responsible by humankind on this earth, we are allowed to take the title of the book "HEMP Lifeline to the Future". What the author Chris Conrad has predicted in the book has been and being realized, utility of hemp specially in Europe and America. But it's not enough when the matter and issues are global for whole earth. Have to implement it worldwide. That's the reason we get unite here in Kyoto today from all over the world for make balance on us all. Time is now, not later when it would be too late. Having legal issue at each country with each conditions, after international ban on a purpose of industrial colonization or monopolization, we may first need to solve those illogical issue worldwide with our unity too. 

Fortunately, we have all the heroes and heroines who are advocators with all the experiments and professional skills by all means. We can work together. It should not be such a big matter compared with the matter whether we human being can survive sustainably. As you can see, world is moving toward. We don't worry. It's more important to implement hemp thus create sustainable area or region, starting locally and widen internationally. We are honored this movement starts from this island nation, Japan where people are cultivating it and using it for over 10,000 years with evidence thus having a lot of experience and knowledge and also wisdom towards the way for sustainability. But even at here with such long history of using it, after 70 years of ban on it, people are forgetting all the knowledge and methods plus wisdom within. For here too locally, it's time now than later, it cannot be at next generation otherwise all the knowledge will be forgotten forever.

With the new sophisticated ideas and innovated techniques combined with those traditional knowledge and wisdom towards sustainability, we can really implement hemp farming and its utility and can realize sustainable future which is talked in a book "HEMP Lifeline to the Future". This is the matter of survival and hope for all of us living on earth which is a planet with limited resources human can utilize. She can feed all of us if we plow the land and cultivate plants and use it humbly as renewable resource, and we can share all. We get unite, be aware, share the info and knowledge and implement together with worldwide network and cooperation with compassion to each other. It's time to start. We wish 2nd July 2016 in Kyoto will be memorized in a history that we remember the way how to keep surviving all of us with renewable natural resources, specially cannabis HEMP as a symbol of biomass and earth's precious gift we can use for ourselves and for our earth to be healed. 

Thank you very much for your attendance, kind cooperation and uniting with us.

Registered Non Profit Organization (NPO), Japan Hemp Association
together with Hemp Environmental Forum, international network