Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 05/03/2010 2:07:19 PM PDT by bestintxas
The Kyoto Protocol is under threat and political leaders should no longer skirt core questions about its destiny, the UN's top climate official told environment ministers from around the world Monday. "The question is on everybody's mind but, unfortunately, on nobody's lips: what, in all honesty, is the future of the Kyoto Protocol?," Yvo de Boer asked more than three dozen ministers gathered near Bonn to brainstorm on climate.
"It is your responsibility to take this thorny topic by the horn," said de Boer, Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
After the failure of the Copenhagen summit to craft a successor, Kyoto remains the only enforceable global treaty requiring industrialised nations to cut carbon emissions.
Its current provisions run out in 2012.
Whether to tweak, bolster or bury the Protocol emerged as a red-hot issue last year, but was sidelined after the near collapse of the December conference.
Developing countries, which are exempted from its provisions, have made it abundantly clear that they wish to see the Protocol extended.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
I don’t think many nations lived up to the protocol commitments that signed it so the reality is it was a worthless agreement all around. The premise was false to start with of course.
“I don’t think many nations lived up to the protocol commitments ...”
Nobody cares as long as the U.S. pays.....!
THAT IS the protocol!
duh
Iceland’s little “problem” produced enough carbon to nix all the credits EU has banked (and WILL bank for about 50 years.)
Bump.
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