The Green Files: Kyoto Archives

The Green Files > March 01, 2012

Kicking the Can on Climate Change - Reason Magazine

[Reason Magazine Full Feed] After the Durban conference adopted its “roadmap,” the EuropeanUnion agreed to keep a rump version of the Kyoto Protocol alive byimposing further greenhouse gas emission reductions on itstaxpayers through 2017. As a side note, a November report by theSwiss bank UBS found that implementing Europe’s carbon market underthe Kyoto Protocol has resulted in almost zero low-carboninnovations in energy production while imposing about $280 billionin additional costs on European consumers.

March 08, 2011

An eco-friendly North Korea? | FP Passport

[FP Passport] Theisolated Stalinist enclave has a series of hydropower projects that it hopes toleverage with the United Nations' Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) scheme,which allows developing countries to partner with typically richer countrieslooking to reduce emissions under the Kyoto Protocol.

Posted at 02:35 PM

November 14, 2009

Europe's Environment Chief Still Hopeful for Global Climate ...

[Green Inc.] Dimas suggested that the ability of the European Union to hit their Kyoto goals illustrated the feasibility of using the treaty as the basis for climate negotiations. He said countries should “transpose in a way the Kyoto architecture”

Posted at 03:04 PM

August 24, 2009

Australian climate change chief turns away from Kyoto-style pact ...

[cop15.dk News] Hand told the Sydney Morning Herald that the “world is very different” from when the Kyoto pact entered into force in 2005. The Kyoto Protocol is linked to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and sets binding targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Posted at 12:33 PM

July 25, 2008

Environmentalism and Germany

[Sevens] Yes, "In America there are voices that deride and deny the importance of Europe." And yes, Europe does "have the view that America is part of what's gone wrong in the world." We do not think like Europeans, we actually admire and try to promote people who mean what they say and do what they say they will do. Europe votes for and ignores Kyoto and is praised around the world while America votes down Kyoto but refuses to plan for future energy needs, hoping for some magic energy dart of a solution.

Posted at 03:03 PM

May 01, 2008

Global warming is all about feelings

[Orange Punch] Bush for scorning the Kyoto global warming treaty, which Bill Clinton never asked the U.S. Senate to approve. It was enough that Clinton said he supported Kyoto;

Posted at 03:02 PM

June 20, 2005

Backtracks on the Kyoto Pact

[Fresh Politics - Politics from the Student Perspective] National’s environment spokesman, Nick Smith, says the party, if elected, will consider pulling out of the Kyoto Protocol, despite the cost to New Zealand’s international reputation, given the “hammering” the economy will take under the latest numbers.

Posted at 10:38 AM

June 19, 2005

exxon makes a cold calculation on global warming

[LarsonsWorld | just another persons waste of time] Along with the Bush administration, Exxon opposes the Kyoto accord and the very idea of capping global-warming emissions. Congress is debating an energy bill that may be amended to include a cap, but the administration and Exxon say the costs would be huge and the benefits uncertain.

Posted at 01:00 PM