G - Kyoto Protocol case study Flashcards
What is the Kyoto Protocol?
An international agreement to cut CO2 emissions to help reduce global warming
When was it? and who made the argument made?
11th December in 1997 in Japan made by industrialized countries
How much greenhouse gas emissions needed to be reduced?
5% below 1990 levels between 2008 and 2012
What did EU countries on a whole have as there targets?
8% reduction but individuelle countries had there own target
When did the treaty become legally binding?
in 2005 - when all the countries who were responsibly for 55% of the total emissions had signed
What country initial declined to sign but eventually did in 2011?
USA after they got 191 signatories
Why did poor countries not have to reduce their emissions?
They could trade in their carbon credits instead - the amount of greenhouses gases they are allowed to emit
What could countries putting more pollution into the atmosphere do?
Buy carbon credits from a country below its agreed level
What did the Bail Conference in December 2007 sought to establish?
New targets to replace those agreed at Kyoto however no figure was decided, only a recognition that there would need to be “deep cuts in global emission”
What did the Durban Conference in December 2011 agree to?
- A legally binding deal comprising all countries including USA, China and India.
- It would be prepared by 2015 and take effect in 2020
