Climate talk hope versus reality

• Autores: Michael Le Page
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3049, 2015, págs. 10-11
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Page reports the UN climate treaty being negotiated in Paris. Among other things, international efforts to tackle climate change began at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, leading to the 1997 Kyoto Protocol. Earlier this year, the branch of the UN that oversees climate negotiations, the UNFCCC, declared the protocol had proved that climate agreements work. The protocol required that, by 2013. Industrialized countries cut their greenhouse gas emissions by an avenge of five per cent relative to 1990 levels. While some failed, most beat their targets. Their collective emissions tell by about 23 percent.