Kyoto on target despite some slackers
(IPS) Kyoto Protocol will exceed its reduction targets, UN agency says.
Total greenhouse gas emissions of 40 industrialised countries rose to a near all-time high in 2005, but the Kyoto Protocol will still exceed its reduction targets, a United Nations agency said two weeks before political leaders meet in Bali, Indonesia to begin negotiations on a new and more aggressive treaty to battle climate change.
"Greenhouse-gas emissions between 1990 and 2000 went down, but then between 2000 and 2005 they increased again, by 2.6 per cent," said Yvo de Boer, executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
Countries that signed the Kyoto Protocol are expected to achieve reductions of 11 per cent compared to 1990 by 2012 if their policies deliver the promised reductions, the UNFCCC report said - a significant achievement and surpassing the Kyoto Protocol target of five percent.
21 Nov 2007
