Convention of Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol of 1997 Kiana Kazemi

Convention of Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol of 1997 1997 the Kyoto Protocol was concluded in Kyoto, Japan, in which members agreed to the broad outlines of the emissions targets. The Protocol is an International treaty that extends the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Annex I countries are legally binded to their commitment in cutting a certain percentage of their emissions. This is regulated by the UNFCCC

Convention of Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol of 1997 Main Goal: To cut greenhouse gas emissions to "a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system" (Art. 2) with the premise that Climate Change exists and has been created as a result of human produced CO2 emissions The protocol puts the obligation to reduce current emissions on developed countries on the basis that they are historically responsible for the current levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

Convention of Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol of 1997 Methods to reach target emissions include: Compensating for emissions by increasing the number of a country’s carbon sinks (forests) Emissions trading – trading of emission allowances between countries Clean development mechanism – promotes environmentally-friendly foreign investments from industrialized countries into developing countries Joint implementation – allows developed countries to sponsor foreign research to decrease emission levels in countries of economic transition

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