Climate Change: How can developing countries benefit from the entering into force of the Kyoto Protocol?
Article from: OGEL Archive issue , in Environment
Summary
The Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change was agreed to in December 1997 and is now open for ratification. One of the major issues in the negotiation has been the involvement of developing countries in the process of reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. Under the Kyoto Protocol developed countries and countries undergoing the process of economic transition (Annex I parties) commit themselves to binding reduction targets to be achieved by the year 2008-2012. Developing countries, on the other hand, do not assume binding targets but only ...