Monday, August 22, 2011

Ten principles for climate change

Practical rules should underpin a post-Kyoto agreement.

THE clock is ticking for the Kyoto Protocol, which ends next year, and the United Nations has yet to come up with a replacement. Agreement is essential at the UN climate change conference in Durban later this year on some basic principles on which a Kyoto mark II can be built.

A major problem with the Kyoto Protocol is its preoccupation with setting greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction targets for each country and whether they should be binding or voluntary

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