The Kyoto Protocol and Global Warming

The Kyoto Protocol (named after the place where the meeting took place in Japan); a global agreement about Climate Change was set up by the United Nations in 1997. This initiative was created to help reduce harmful polluting emissions and global warming. It contains goals for emission reductions that is legally binding for all the countries involved (37 industrialized countries and the European community ) in the accord.

The aim is to help prevent countries from causing global warming through preventable human activities. Other sources of Global Warming come from mother nature, however, damage of the climate caused by humans has more significant effects on the planet.

The developed countries of the world like Canada & the UK have made strong commitments to help reduce amounts of emissions and have also set out a time line in witch to do this by known as the target dates and set levels. Six greenhouse gases have been targeted to be reduced by five percent with in the next few years. Three of those gases are carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide. If these countries are successful in tier goals, then it will definitely help reduce global warming.

Some countries have been allowed to raise emission levels, unlike most countries whom have agreed to reduce emissions. Some of these countries are Iceland, Norway, and Australia. There current numbers are much lower then the anticipated acceptable levels and even though they can increase levels they can only do so to a certain level. There are also countries that have told that they can maintain the levels of emissions that they already produce. Some of these countries are Russia, and New Zealand.

The goals of Kyoto is to decrease global warming and should be significantly noticed between the years 2008-2012. As we already know that this date is quickly approaching, it seems that this goal will be nearly impossibility to achieve for some countries like the United States.

Under the Kyoto protocol, a country can receive credit by helping other countries out. For example, if a developed country sponsors emissions reducing programs in other developing countries, then they receive credit for this. This method demonstrates their commitment to the reduction of global warming. When every developed country joins in the struggle to reduce global warming, the earth will finally start to clearly show the benefits of everybody help. After all we all live on this beautiful planet and we all need to do our part to maintain it for generations to come, so that they can enjoy it too.

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