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...
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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.
This article first appeared in my blog in April of 2007. A client and I were talking about change, and it seemed appropriate to run this article again. Judith Margerie Glacier in Glacier Bay, Alaska from Icss.net I was searching for information about something, and a headline gave me pause for thought. "Ice climbers give eyewitness accounts of global warming Last Updated: Saturday, April 7, Read Full Story
That holiday for representatives of the UN is in danger of being spoilt over the continued opposing view of the US and the EU, VOA News reports today.
A split has emerged at the conference here between the European Union and the United States, over whether or not to set firm targets for cuts in greenhouse emissions. Yvo de Boer, who is heading the U.N.-sponsored meeting, warned Thursday that the deadlock is threatening to derail the desired negotiations.
“I think what’s at stake here for the... Read Full Story
“The spirit of Kyoto is dying,” says Kimiko Hirata of the Kiko Network — a Japanese non-governmental organisation dedicated to implementing the Kyoto Protocol — who was in Bali for the 10th anniversary celebration this week. Scientists warned delegates at the conference that failure to reduce emissions by a level comparable to that proposed in the Kyoto draft would be likely to result in a temperature increase of more than 2 ºCelsius, recognized as the threshold for ‘dangerous’ climate... Read Full Story
Warming Up to the Kyoto Protocol
The Kyoto Protocol has represented one of the most important steps in the global fight against global warming. The Kyoto Protocol took place in Kyoto, Japan from December 1 through 11 in 1997. During the Kyoto Protocol, more than 160 nations got together to discuss and negotiate and finally ratify the Kyoto Protocol. During the Kyoto Protocol, leaders of many nations met to negotiate several binding limitations concerning greenhouse gases as they apply to... Read Full Story
"Artic is Screaming" read the headline in my local paper today. The quote from Mark Serreze, a senior scientist at NSIDC, seems a little melodramatic doesn’t it? Don’t get me wrong, I believe that we are experiencing Global Warming.Today’s article mentioned one of the effects being changed winter weather in the Southeast. Well we’re having that, it’s going to be over 70 today and setting records for high temps for a few days in a row. Indeed the severe drought we are experiencing may be due... Read Full Story
