The Kyoto Protocol is Dead
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The Kyoto Protocol is dead -- there will be no further global treaties that set binding limits on the emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG) after Kyoto runs out in 2012.
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China is the world's second-largest source of greenhouse gases but when the Kyoto Protocol on climate change comes into force next week it will be under no obligation to cut emissions.
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A U.N. conference ended early Saturday with a vague plan for informal new talks on how to slow global warming but without a U.S. commitment to multilateral negotiations on next steps, including emissions controls.
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The Kyoto environmental accord has cleared the final hurdle to ratification with a vote in the Russian Parliament on Friday. The approval of Russian lawmakers gives the stalled accord enough international support to come into force worldwide.
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The spotlight of the conference is expected to be on the Australian and American delegations. Australia and the US are the only two major nations that have not signed the Kyoto Protocol, which officially comes into force next February.
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The Kyoto protocol on climate change will become a legally-binding treaty on 16 February, the UN annnounces.
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The United States has reiterated its rejection of the Kyoto Protocol on global warming despite renewed pressure to yield after Russia ended years of hesitation by moving to ratify the treaty.
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LONDON, Oct 1 (IPS) - It is called the Clean Development Mechanism, and   is one of the principal tools to turn the Kyoto Protocol into  reality on  the ground Ã» or in the air.
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The Kyoto Protocol, which aims to slow down global warming, will come into effect on Wednesday.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin&#39;s decision to ask parliament to ratify the Kyoto Protocol should belatedly allow the anti-global-warming treaty to come into force -- but it&#39;s far from saving the climate.
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Signing the Kyoto Protocols is one thing, adhering to it something else again. Greenhouse gas emissions rise for the industrialized nations, who look like they're going to have a hard time reigning in their waste to meet 2012 goals.
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"The risk of the global economy taking a downward turn is increasing"  The United States, China and India must be part of the follow-up treaty to the Kyoto Protocol and agree to cut carbon emissions, Denmark's prime minister said Saturday. Japan's leader offered them a bold strategy for doing it.Climate change returned to the fore at the World Economic Forum's annual meeting, where Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda proposed a 2020 deadline for countries to boost their energy efficiency by 30 percent. He added that Japan would try to spread its high-quality environmental technology around the world. Read more
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Delegates at the United Nations climate change conference have ended negotiations with a compromise plan for talks on how to combat global warming.
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ROME - Italy has called for an end to the Kyoto Protocol after the environmental treaty&#39;s initial period in 2012, preferring voluntary agreements that would entice the United States, China and India to tackle climate change.
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THE US stood firm in rejecting the Kyoto Protocol on global warming yesterday despite renewed pressure to yield after Russia ended years of hesitation by moving to ratify the treaty.
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to get talks rolling for after 2012, when the Kyoto protocol to cut greenhouse gases runs out. protocol last month, allowing the treaty to take effect in February with a seven-year delay.
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The Kyoto agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions doesn't take effect for two months, but climate change negotiators are already fixated on what happens when it expires in 2012.