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Kyoto protocol greenhouse gas emissions |
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The Kyoto
Protocol greenhouse gas emissions drive to lower the amount of harmful
gasses which are being produced by countries all across the world, have
until 2012 to finally see how much of an impact the protocol really has
done. There have been points of contention over the Protocol, some
stating that the greenhouse gas emissions targets were set way too low
to make any difference whatsoever to the state of the planet. The
Protocol, in order to be ratified fully, needed 55/55 countries to sign
up to full agreement in lowering the emissions. This, unfortunately,
even to this date has not happened, so there is a shortfall in the
overall effectiveness of the Protocol.
Seen as an important step forward upon its initiation, a lot of the
importance put upon the fact that so many nations had actually agreed
on something, the Kyoto Protocol greenhouse gas emissions targets
imbued a sense of optimism in the world. Reports had already been
released about the effects that gasses such as carbon dioxide, methane
and nitrus oxide was having on the planet, it was a bold step forward
to working together to a common solution. But between the media hype
there was a lot going on behind the scenes. There had been a lot of
discussion and disagreements over aspects about |
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