Kyoto Protocol Sample Clauses

Kyoto Protocol. The Parties commit to cooperating on the development of the future international climate change framework in accordance with the Bali Action Plan.6
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Kyoto Protocol. The Kyoto Protocol is an international treaty that extends the 1992 UNFCCC’s commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. This protocol deals with reducing greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere to a “level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system.” 5 This Protocol was adopted in 1997, and as of December 2012, 192 parties have ratified this Protocol. It is to be noted that U.S. has not ratified this Protocol as of 2016. The central aim of Kyoto Protocol is: “to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, based on the fact that (a) global warming exists and (b) human-made CO2 emissions have caused it.” Although there are some criticisms to this Protocol, this Protocol is a “small but essential first step towards stabilizing atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases.6” This Protocol excludes emissions due to international aviation and shipping.
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Kyoto Protocol. The Kyoto Protocol is an international treaty which extends the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) that commits state parties to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, based on the scientific consensus that (part one) global warming is occurring and (part two) it is extremely likely that human-made CO2 emissions have predominantly caused it. The Kyoto Protocol was adopted in Kyoto, Japan, on 11 December 1997 and entered into force on 16 February 2005. There are currently 192 parties (Canada withdrew from the protocol, effective December 2012) to the Protocol. The Kyoto Protocol implemented the objective of the UNFCCC to reduce the onset of global warming by reducing greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere to "a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system" (Article 2). The Kyoto Protocol applies to the six greenhouse gases listed in Annex A: Carbon dioxide (CO2), Methane (CH4), Nitrous oxide (N2O), Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), Perfluorocarbons (PFCs), and Sulphur hexafluoride (SF6). The Protocol is based on the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities: it acknowledges that individual countries have different capabilities in combating climate change, owing to economic development, and therefore 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. The Protocol's first commitment period started in 2008 and ended in 2012. A second commitment period was agreed in 2012, known as the Doha Amendment to the Kyoto Protocol, in which 37 countries have binding targets: Australia, the European Union (and its 28 member states), Belarus, Iceland, Kazakhstan, Liechtenstein, Norway, Switzerland, and Ukraine. Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Ukraine have stated that they may withdraw from the Kyoto Protocol or not put into legal force the Amendment with second round targets. Japan, New Zealand, and Russia have participated in Kyoto's first-round but have not taken on new targets in the second commitment period. Other developed countries without second-round targets are Canada (which withdrew from the Kyoto Protocol in 2012) and the United States (which has not ratified). As of September 2019, 132 states have accepted the Doha Amendment, while entry into force requires the acceptances of 144 states. Of the 37 countries with binding commitments, 7 have ratified. Nego...
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Kyoto Protocol. They commit to cooperating on the development of the future international climate change framework under the UNFCCC and its related agreements and decisions.
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Kyoto Protocol. This is very modest given that the IPCC considered that emission reductions of 25-40% by 2020 will be necessary. In addition, emissions for a number of Annex I countries were known to be well below their 2008-12 targets when the Protocol was adopted in 1997.
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Kyoto Protocol. The talks were stuck for days over the fate of the Kyoto Protocol, the landmark treaty whose obligations on wealthy countries to cut emissions expires in late 2012. The European Union led calls for a new round of commitments under Kyoto, a move that Japan surprising opposed, noting that the protocol covers only 30 per cent of global emissions because top polluters including China and the United States are not part of it. In a compromise Japan accepted, the Cancun agreement called for work on a second period of the Kyoto Protocol “to ensure that there is no gap,” but did not oblige countries to be part of the new round. Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxx shifted gears on Kyoto Protocol when he took office, but his hopes for legislation to restrict carbon were dashed when the rival Republican Party won last month's election. Response about the Cancun Deal: Chief US negotiator Xxxx Xxxxx said: “Obviously the package is not going to solve climate change by itself, but I think it is a big step forward.” Friends of the Earth's international climate campaigner Xxxx Xxxxxx described the Cancun agreement as weak and ineffective - but said it gave the world a "small and fragile lifeline". Xxxxx Xxxxxx, head of climate change at WWF-UK, said: "After Copenhagen it was hoped that Cancun could establish a platform for progressing action on climate change. Despite some last minute hiccups, countries leave here with a renewed sense of goodwill and some sense of purpose." Xxxx Xxxxxx, Co-director of the UK Youth Climate Coalition, said: "Today's progress gives young people across the world hope. This is the beginning of a common climate path. These outcomes put us one step closer to the cleaner, fairer future that young people across the world dream of. Greenpeace International Climate Policy Director Xxxxxx Trio said: "Cancun may have saved the process but it did not yet save the climate. Some called the process dead but governments have shown that they can cooperate and can move forward to achieve a global deal.” Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx, who directs climate policy for the advocacy group Conservation International, said this "basic framework" is "going to inspire countries to really ramp up the financing immediately" for forest preservation, as well as open the door to more private funding.
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Kyoto Protocol. [10] The non-binding Washington Declaration, which built off Kyoto, set hilariously impossible goals like the creation of a global system of this type. In America, the House passed Xxxxxx-Xxxxxx, which would have created one. ANSWER: cap and trade system [prompt on emissions trading]
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