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News about the Kyoto Protocol
The Kyoto Protocol is now 10 years old, and all industrial nationals (including Australia now) have joined in the call to curb global warming - EXCEPT the United States. The US, under the leadership of George W Bush, has refused to... [more]
The Kyoto Protocol is now 10 years old, and all industrial nationals (including Australia now) have joined in the call to curb global warming - EXCEPT the United States.
The US, under the leadership of George W Bush, has refused to participate in the world's largest effort to take responsible actions to decrease environmental pollution.
Follow news about the Kyoto Protocol and share opinions about how world leaders can address environmental responsibility.
Should the United States sign the Kyoto Protocol?
41 votes so far
Leader:
Yes, it's embarassing that every other industrial nation has signed before the USA
Yes, it's embarassing that every other industrial nation has signed before the USA
Is the risk of Global Warming worth addressing if it means that there will be costs to the economy?
8 votes so far
Leader:
Yes, the economy is worthless if the earth is ruined
Yes, the economy is worthless if the earth is ruined
Twelve years ago, when I was toiling as the minister of natural resources, I received a briefing on the Kyoto Protocol. I wasn't impressed. It seemed to me the protocol was built on a shaky foundation. At the time the science community largely agreed the world was heating up and that emissions of gases like carbon dioxide and methane were contributing to the problem. In short, for the first time in history we could really blame the politicians...
- The climate question: Road to Copenhagen (feedburner.com)
- The Climate Question: Road to Copenhagen (feedburner.com)
The Kyoto Protocol was the work of thousands of bureaucrats, diplomats and politicians. But no one person is more responsible for it than a Canadian named Maurice Strong.
Strong organized the UN first-world environmental summit in Stockholm in 1972 and has never stopped pressing for a world where UN resolutions would be enforced as law all over the Earth.
Strong went on to chair the 1992 UN Conference on Environment and Development in Rio...
From sott.net
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- Will Summit on Climate Change Revitalize Green ETFs? (seekingalpha.com)
- Letter: Kyoto Protocol is not expiring (p.moreover.com)
- Carbon Market and Clean Development Mechanism: Reflections on Effectiveness (rose.geog.mcgill.ca)
by Michael A. Livermore The Kyoto Protocol has taken criticism from all sides over the years. But in fairness, it is important to recognize that, according to almost any estimate, the treaty has resulted in surpassed targets in some nations, significant emissions reductions even in nations that may miss their targets, and a marked improvement over business-as-usual had there been no treaty. Whether nations ratified the treaty or abstained...
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From grist.org
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Enron executives worked closely with the Clinton administration to secure support for the Kyoto Protocol because the company believed the treaty could provide it with a financial windfall. An internal Enron memo circulated immediately after the 1997 Kyoto meeting - and first reported by The Washington Post - shows the company believed the treaty "would do more to promote Enrons business than will almost any other regulatory initiative outside...
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From freerepublic.com
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Independent (UK): The December 7-18 UN climate conference in Copenhagen is tasked with framing a new deal for tackling global warming and its impacts beyond 2012. Here is a factfile on the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the Kyoto Protocol and the talks. UNFCCC The offshoot of the 1992 Rio Earth Summit, the UNFCCC provides a planetary arena for tackling climate change. It came into force on March 21 1994. The treaty has...
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From earthwire.org
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KYOTO, Japan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--OMRON Corporation (TOKYO:6445)(ADR:OMRNY) today released vision sensor software for glue bead inspection (models FZ3-UGI and FZ3-UGIH) to global markets. In recent years, the development of electric and hybrid vehicles in the automobile industry has been gathering steam to reduce carbon dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions in order to implement measures for preventing global warming inspired by the Kyoto Protocol...
From businesswire.com
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- November - Non-Industrial Emissions Key for Meeting Kyoto Targets (ad-hoc-news.de)
- Non-Industrial Emissions Key for Meeting Kyoto Targets (rss.prnewswire.com)
- Non-industrial emissions key for meeting Kyoto targets (eea.europa.eu)
The ambition of the Danish government is that the COP15 conference in Copenhagen will result in an ambitious global climate protection agreement including all the countries of the world. 2009 represents more or less the last chance to achieve an agreement, if this agreement is to come into force after the first commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol expires in 2012.
Developments in the world since the Kyoto Protocol was negotiated in 1997...
From z.about.com
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- FACTBOX-The future of the Clean Development Mechanism (search.msn.com)
- Amendments to Kyoto proposed by Philippines (search.msn.com)
- Copenhagen is not Kyoto (grist.org)
