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05-09-2007, 09:23 PM
"As it stands Kyoto is not tackling global emission at any adequate level because its targets are way too low." (http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/05/08/kyoto.protocol/index.html)
http://www.cleanmpg.com/photos/data/501/Smoke_stacks.jpgPaul Sussman - CNN - May 9, 2007
Electrical Generation via Coal outputs a large amount of GHG emissions. The Kyoto Protocol is intended to combat those emissions that lead to climate change.
LONDON, England -- Troubled, flawed and shunned by the United States, the Kyoto Protocol remains to date the most comprehensive attempt by the international community to tackle, at a governmental level, one of the defining issues of our age: global warming and climate change.
Negotiated in December 1997 and eventually brought into legal force five years later in February 2005, the Protocol's so-called "First Commitment Period" is due to expire in 2012 (it is not, as some reports have suggested, the treaty itself that expires).
This week marks the start of a fortnight-long meeting in Bonn, Germany, of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate, where 1700 diplomats, scientists and NGOs from 166 countries will attempt to start hammering out draft proposals for moving Kyoto forward into a second commitment period.
Those proposals will then be put to a larger meeting in Bali, Indonesia, in December, when the U.N. will launch formal negotiations on a revised and expanded climate treaty, with officials hoping to have such a treaty in place within two years.
"The Bonn conference is essentially a stepping stone on the way to Bali," John Hay, Spokesmen for the U.N. Climate Change Secretariat, told CNN.
"It is part of an ongoing process aimed both at developing proposals to replace Kyoto, but also at continuing the work of the existing treaty.
"It's actually more of a technical meeting and won't be dealing with issues such as the setting of specific greenhouse gas targets -- that will be dealt with at another round of talks in Vienna in August … http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/05/08/kyoto.protocol/index.html
Thanks Larry.
http://www.cleanmpg.com/photos/data/501/Smoke_stacks.jpgPaul Sussman - CNN - May 9, 2007
Electrical Generation via Coal outputs a large amount of GHG emissions. The Kyoto Protocol is intended to combat those emissions that lead to climate change.
LONDON, England -- Troubled, flawed and shunned by the United States, the Kyoto Protocol remains to date the most comprehensive attempt by the international community to tackle, at a governmental level, one of the defining issues of our age: global warming and climate change.
Negotiated in December 1997 and eventually brought into legal force five years later in February 2005, the Protocol's so-called "First Commitment Period" is due to expire in 2012 (it is not, as some reports have suggested, the treaty itself that expires).
This week marks the start of a fortnight-long meeting in Bonn, Germany, of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate, where 1700 diplomats, scientists and NGOs from 166 countries will attempt to start hammering out draft proposals for moving Kyoto forward into a second commitment period.
Those proposals will then be put to a larger meeting in Bali, Indonesia, in December, when the U.N. will launch formal negotiations on a revised and expanded climate treaty, with officials hoping to have such a treaty in place within two years.
"The Bonn conference is essentially a stepping stone on the way to Bali," John Hay, Spokesmen for the U.N. Climate Change Secretariat, told CNN.
"It is part of an ongoing process aimed both at developing proposals to replace Kyoto, but also at continuing the work of the existing treaty.
"It's actually more of a technical meeting and won't be dealing with issues such as the setting of specific greenhouse gas targets -- that will be dealt with at another round of talks in Vienna in August … http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/05/08/kyoto.protocol/index.html
Thanks Larry.