... percent of the global volume.
The United States pledged to cut its emissions by 26-28 percent by 2025 compared to 2005 when the Kyoto Protocol became effective.
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Yulia Yamineva:
UN Summit on Climate Change in Paris –
Destined to Fail ... ...
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and Comprehensive Action Plan for its implementation of June 4, 2008 No. 889 "On Measures for Raising the Energy and Ecology-Related Efficiency of the Russian Economy"
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, Federal Law 261-FZ of November 23, 2009 "On Energy Saving ...
... Paris, France. The article begins with background information on climate science, emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) and economics of climate change. It then continues with a brief history of developments under the Convention on Climate Change and Kyoto Protocol and moves on to discuss how a Paris agreement is expected to be different from the approach taken in Kyoto. The article further outlines the main elements of a Paris package and analyses the areas of disagreement among nations. It concludes ...
... “last effective opportunity” to avert dangerous consequences arising from climate change.
All eyes are now on COP21, which is the culmination of a lengthy and comprehensive diplomatic effort to draft a universal agreement that would replace the Kyoto Protocol. As costs of inaction, both environmental and financial, continue to mount, the conference in Paris is highly important. It is seen as the “
last effective opportunity
” to avert dangerous consequences arising from climate change....
... the UNFCCC is the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities, whereby the primary responsibility for combating climate change (hence, the main emission reduction commitments) falls on developed countries and economies in transition.
The
Kyoto Protocol
signed in 1997 specifies the provisions of the UNFCCC. Both developed countries and economies in transition have made specific quantitative commitments to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions over the term of the Protocol, that is, from ...
... the least developed states), while the developing world insists on maintaining the status quo.
The positions of China and India, the world's first and third largest emitters, are of key significance, as they had no quantitative obligations under the Kyoto Protocol. Hence, the format of their participation in a new agreement seems decisive. So far, Beijing and New Delhi have refrained from full-fledged obligations, only checking the cooperative aspirations of other countries that see countering the ...
Climate change has risen to the top of the international agenda and is a regular item under consideration at major international arenas including the UN, G8, and G20. Yet, available international instruments like the Kyoto Protocol have proved to be ineffective in substantially reducing global emissions and on-going negotiations on a new UN treaty have so far been protracted and yielded only modest results. Climate change thus serves as a textbook example of the
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