Kyoto Protocol

The lack of any carbon targets for developing nations in the Kyoto protocol was the reason the US never ratified that treaty.

In particular, the market for the sort of offset sanctioned by the Kyoto protocol will dry up, as buyers wait to see what the future holds.

Climate change negotiators are trying to come up with a workable draft document to replace the 1997 Kyoto Protocol.

Negotiators for the Copenhagen summit are trying to agree on a replacement for the Kyoto Protocol to limit carbon emissions.

Carbon market has become a global commodity market with the greatest development potential since Kyoto Protocol came into effect.

It also noted that the US, China, India and Australia, the world's four-largest coal producers had not ratified the Kyoto protocol.

The US did not approve the Kyoto Protocol, making the country appear passive in the face of global public opinion.

Worse, a study in October found a loophole in the Kyoto Protocol that allows unfettered biofuel pollution.

Japan considers its strategy vital for getting China, as well as India, to sign up to a post-Kyoto protocol from 2013.

But he said any new accords should build on the Kyoto protocol, the main UN treaty, not replace it.

Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Weimin expressed China's dismay at the news that Canada had pulled out of the Kyoto Protocol.

It would be part of the existing UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, which administers the Kyoto protocol.

"However, the CCP has different responsibilities" : is that to say that there's only this one kind of interpretation of the Kyoto Protocol?

The EU has linked it to another hypersensitive issue on which Durban could founder, the Kyoto protocol.

Poland also wants to be able to continue selling certain carbon credits after the Kyoto protocol expires in 2012.

The meeting over two weeks is expected to come up with a new deal to replace the Kyoto Protocol.

An international agreement to replace the Kyoto protocol, which runs out in 2012, does need to be reached.

REDD forms part of the negotiations on a successor to the Kyoto protocol, which will reach a climax at meetings in Copenhagen this December.

The Kyoto Protocol on reducing greenhouse gas emissions formally went into effect Tuesday in Australia.

The importance of the Kyoto Protocol as a means of solving the serious problem of global warming goes without saying.

The present Kyoto Protocol only binds industrialized countries, with the exception of the United States.

The Bush administration has pathetically used China's exemption from the Kyoto protocol as an excuse not to act.

Unlike all other rich countries bar Australia, the United States never ratified the Kyoto protocol, and formally withdrew from it in 2001.

"We must achieve a second commitment period under the Kyoto protocol, " he said.

They also advance Norway's goal of securing a replacement to the Kyoto protocol, by giving poor countries more of a stake in the process.

The president's remarks were the closest the US has come under his leadership to agreeing to engage in the Kyoto protocol process.

HFCs, or hydrofluorocarbons, are among the six heat-trapping gases covered in the Kyoto Protocol.

Why America hesitates when facing Kyoto Protocol while it was so proactive in case of the Afghanistan-Iraq war?

That can provide the basis for a strong treaty next year to succeed the Kyoto protocol.

This is a ridiculous subject. Kyoto Protocol is no more than a game set by the developed countries to fool the developing ones.

As a developing economy, under the Kyoto Protocol, China is not required to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in absolute terms.

Students at Peking University have set up a Clean Development Mechanism club, named after a part of the Kyoto protocol.

N. climate talks of seeking to kill the Kyoto Protocol pact to curb global warming, in a damaging standoff with Japan, Russia and Canada.

World leaders meet in Copenhagen in December to try to agree a successor agreement to the Kyoto Protocol.

First rejecting negotiations, US finally agreed to a compromise: a two-year plan to develop a replacement for the 1997 Kyoto Protocol.

"The Kyoto Protocol should be adhered to, " said Xie. "Why should we negate something that we've achieved ourselves? "

The Senate had made it clear it would reject the Kyoto protocol well before George Bush had abandoned it.

Firstly, Annex B of Kyoto Protocol lists the commitment of carbon emission reduction by the industrialized countries.

Another concern is the funding of hydropower projects through the Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development Mechanism.

First rejecting negotiations, US fin ally agreed to a compromise: a two-ye ar pl an to develop a replacement for the 1997 Kyoto Protocol.

Even so, the IHRs have one advantage over treaties like the Kyoto protocol on climate change.

The environmental diplomacy of Bush administration has been blamed, especially when Bush administration rejected Kyoto Protocol.

The industry got short shrift in the wake of the Kyoto Protocol, being excluded from most subsidy and carbon trading schemes.

The conference included a visit from former UN Under-Secretary and co-founder of the Kyoto Protocol, Maurice F. Strong.

The Kyoto Protocol is a symbolically important expression of governments' concern about climate change.

The Kyoto protocol, which set about realising those aims, was signed in 1997 and came into force in 2005.

More than 600 mayors from around the world have committed their cities to comply with the Kyoto Protocol.

The Kyoto Protocol established a trading system for intangible goods flowing worldwide which are typified by carbon credit.

The report will form the basis for negotiations on a possible successor to the Kyoto protocol on climate change.

Member countries of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change negotiate the Kyoto Protocol.

It is the first such United Nations meeting since the Kyoto Protocol took effect earlier this year.

The figures will concern policy-makers ahead of global talks on a successor to the Kyoto Protocol in December.

The meeting aims to secure a new global climate change treaty to replace the Kyoto protocol.

About 60 per cent of "certified emissions reductions" issued under the Kyoto protocol are estimated to be from HFC reduction projects.

An existing agreement, the Kyoto Protocol, ends in two thousand twelve.

In line with various United Nations frameworks and the Kyoto protocol, China has formulated an "action plan" for addressing the issue.

International Day of Action On Climate Change, to mark the first meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol.

Negotiators at the Bali conference will begin work on a climate change treaty to succeed the Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2012.

He repeatedly said that China will support a Copenhagen outcome that adheres to the Kyoto Protocol climate change agreement.

The UN-led search for a global accord to replace the Kyoto protocol has stalled.

The Road of Kyoto Protocol expected to be Rough?

The Kyoto Protocol set mandatory national limits for industrialized countries.

At those negotiations, governments will seek to agree on a successor to the Kyoto Protocol on climate change, which expires in 2012.

There have been inadmissible attempts to abandon the Kyoto protocol.

He urged the United State to follow Australia's lead and ratify the Kyoto Protocol.

I was there because I was actually modeling the mangrove portion for a carbon credit program, under the U. N. Kyoto Protocol system.

President George W. Bush has consistently rejected the Kyoto protocol and any mandatory caps on emissions.

The new board, programmes and institutions mean there is now more to the UN process than the flawed Kyoto protocol.

In December, multilateral talks in Copenhagen will form the basis of measures to succeed the Kyoto protocol.

Given this deadlock, other options, such as a provisional extension of the Kyoto protocol, have been mooted.

Australia has ratified its acceptance of the Kyoto Protocol on climate change.

However, we also saw some positive developments: Canada and Russia have announced that they will ratify the Kyoto Protocol.

The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) under the Kyoto Protocol has shown the potential of international cooperation.

The Kyoto Protocol makes no demands of developing nations -- a sticking point that led Bush to shun the treaty.

The Kyoto Protocol has clearly set out the emission reduction targets for developed countries in the first commitment period by 2012.

This failure threatens to unravel a flimsy diplomatic consensus that dates back to the 1997 Kyoto protocol.

Q: It is said that China will host in October the working group meetings of the UNFCCC and the Kyoto Protocol.

Any hope of getting the troubled Kyoto Protocol negotiations back on track comes in large part from China.

President George Bush repudiated the Kyoto protocol in 2001 and did essentially nothing on climate change during his presidency.

Latest figures show that Canada's emissions of greenhouse gases are 30% above the current target set in the Kyoto protocol.

Our commitment to the Kyoto Protocol has been reduced, officially, to the lowest targets of all industrialized countries.

World leaders will meet this December in Copenhagen to negotiate a replacement to the Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2012.

The future deal will replace the Kyoto Protocol - an existing legal framework that was enacted in 2007 and was due to expire next year.

Nations will gather in Bali next month to begin framing a successor to the Kyoto Protocol on climate change, which expires in 2012.

China calling Canada's withdrawal from the Kyoto Protocol "regrettable"

Under the Kyoto protocol, developed countries must cut their emissions by an average of 5 per cent compared with 1990 levels by 2012.

The second is designed to bury whatever hopes still exist for signing a successor treaty to the Kyoto Protocol.

I am proud of my role during the Clinton administration in negotiating the Kyoto protocol.

It would be designed to replace the 1997 Kyoto protocol, which expires in 2012.

Thefact that the Kyoto Protocol was legally binding didn't prevent several countries from failing to meet their targets.

Among them: setting mitigation targets, monitoring and verification, and the future of the Kyoto Protocol.

Japan appears "dead set" against accepting further emission cuts under the Kyoto Protocol, so does Russia.

The statement explicitly says the agreement "will complement but not replace the Kyoto Protocol" .

The first commitment stage of Kyoto Protocol will be end in 2012, the 7 years before 2012 is called "Post-Kyoto Time" .

A successor to the Kyoto protocol could greatly increase the size of this market, as could a cap-and-trade system in America.

In Durban negotiators agreed to extend the Kyoto Protocol, the 1997 climate change treaty that expires this year.

The Paris talks on Thursday and Friday will address possible steps to protect the planet after the Kyoto Protocol expires in 2012.

climate conference are attempting to write the rulebook for the stalled Kyoto protocol.

This agreement will take up where the Kyoto Protocol leaves off when it expires in 2012.

Mr Lomborg reckons that the benefits of implementing the Kyoto protocol would probably outweigh the costs, but not until 2100.

The existing Kyoto Protocol imposes obligations to reduce CO2 emissions only on rich countries.

so in 1997 181 governments signed the Kyoto Protocol to reduce their emissions of the chemical along with five other "greenhouse gases. "

Some 1, 950 projects have been registered with the UN's Clean Development Mechanism, which issues carbon credits under the Kyoto protocol.

Copenhagen will host a December 7-18 meeting meant to come up with a new U. N. plan to succeed the Kyoto Protocol beyond 2012.

US petition drive towards ratifying the Kyoto Protocol.

The Kyoto Protocol is a hard-won result. It is the first step the international community has taken in cooperation to address climate chage.

The Kyoto Protocol, which is aimed at cutting global output of greenhouse gases, will take effect in mid-February next year.

The European Commission linked the ETS to the "clean-development mechanism" (CDM) set up under the Kyoto protocol.

The US plan, if approved, could replace the existing Kyoto protocol.

Wednesday's award went to Japan, which announced that the country would not accept a 2nd commitment period under the Kyoto Protocol.

India has entered negotiations to replace the Kyoto protocol, which expires in 2012, in the same spirit.

Europe has been pushing to retain structures and systems set up under the Kyoto protocol, the existing global treaty on climate change.

Finally, under the Kyoto Protocol, only one per cent of all CDM projects can relate to land use and forestry.

Just about half of the credits granted pursuant to the Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development Mechanism are for projects in China.

Grassroots effort to implement the Kyoto Protocol in the US.

The innovative country that brought the world sushi, Nintendo, and the Kyoto Protocol is also the one with the most healthy citizens.

We need a global system, and the current one, the Kyoto Protocol, is bust.

The treaty is to replace the Kyoto protocol, which expires in 2012.

The EU proposal would follow the current legal framework established under the Kyoto Protocol, which is set to expire next year.

Included in the Kyoto Protocol is something called the Clean Development Mechanism .

The Kyoto protocol makes countries responsible only for their own direct emissions.

The current Kyoto Protocol expires in 2012. China has ratified the treaty.

The Kyoto Protocol enters into force in February, 90 days after Russia signed on.

Under the 1997 Kyoto protocol, only industrialised nations must cut greenhouse gases.

It was hardly likely, they noted sharply, that a country would leave the Kyoto protocol because it wished to cut emissions faster.

The opposition, which is ahead in the opinion polls, has promised to sign the Kyoto protocol.

The current climate treaty, the Kyoto Protocol, expires in 2012.

Many developing countries are pushing for the Kyoto protocol to be kept alive as part of a new treaty.

China has said it wants a deal at the Copenhagen meeting to replace the Kyoto Protocol, which is set to expire in 2012.

The Kyoto Protocol is a legally binding treaty agreed to by 37 countries in 1997. The current goals of the treaty end in 2012.

Spanish information on the Kyoto Protocol.

The 12-day meeting began Monday and will focus on efforts to extend the Kyoto Protocol, which is set to expire next year.

N. treaty on global warming and emissions beyond 2012, when the first phase of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol ends.

It is a good evidence that U. S. A. has been refusing to sign "Kyoto Protocol" through all these years.

Merkel was instrumental in securing the Kyoto protocol, which was approved while she served as Germany's environment minister.

They didn't need to: under the Kyoto protocol, China and other developing nations were not obliged to do anything to reduce emissions.

NEVER has the UN's Kyoto protocol looked sorrier.

Long live the Kyoto protocol.

This is the accepted benchmark year used by the Kyoto protocol.

What about the Kyoto protocol?

What is more, the UN's entire system of climate offsets is due to expire along with the Kyoto protocol in 2012.

The Kyoto Protocol expires in 2012.

Hanging over all of this is uncertainty about the future of the Kyoto Protocol itself.

They say the pact should replace the Kyoto Protocol, which is set to expire in 2012.

The 1997 Kyoto protocol was never ratified by the US, and made no demands on developing countries, notably China.

Developing countries are finding in the Kyoto Protocol avenues to pursue their development and environmental goals simultaneously.

The Kyoto Protocol does not require developing countries to reduce emissions.

Under the Kyoto protocol, only developed countries committed themselves to cutting emissions; developing countries made no such promises.

As developing countries, they are not required by the Kyoto Protocol to limit their emissions.

The United States didn't ratify the Kyoto Protocol and rejected that target because it made no demands on major developing countries.

The aim of the negotiations has been to broker an agreement building on the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2012.

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