Koyoto protocol

The environment is a resource that is available for us to use . It is a commodity in which we need in for us to live a comfortable life style however there is a current change in the environment . The change that the world is currently facing now is climate change or more popularly known as global warming ' The changes that we experience are anthropogenic or human-made because of the technologies that emits Green House Gases (GHGs . In the past , climate change was not a concern in the international community because it is clouded

by other issues such as terrorism , drugs , human rights and the likes but recently climate change became as important as the those issues because of the changes that is being felt by everyone of us

Questions and Answers

1 . What is the history of Kyoto Protocol ? Why Kyoto Protocol (which embodies

International co-operation ) is needed

The awareness of climate change started in 1988 when the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was formed . Studies and research was made in to accurately see the problem of climate change which led to 1990 's IPCC first published Assessment Report . Due to the report which had been available to the international community The Earth Summit held in Rio de Jainero in 1992 . The Summit led to the creation of the UNFCCC or the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change which is an organization under the United Nations (UN that focuses on the issues regarding climate change . The convention was entered in to force in 1994 . The next step that the international organization did was to create the COP1 (Conference of Parties ) which was held in Berlin to strengthen UNFCCC through a protocol . Finally , in 1997 the Kyoto Protocol was created (Climate Change Colleges , 2004

The Kyoto Protocol is an international agreement in which desires to address the issue of climate change through the cooperation of the international community . The IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ) an organization that creates research and analysis of the environment , have eagerly researched and studied the climate of the world for many decades , but due to the severe changes of the environment , they called for serious action from the international community which resulted to the United Nations General Assembly (GA ) in Kyoto , Japan in 1997 . The result of the meeting was the Kyoto Protocol The agreement is legally binding , which demands all the signatories to submit to the obligations of returning their emissions of green house gases (GHGs ) to the average of approximately 5 .2 percent below their 1990 levels over the period of 2008-2012 (UNFCCC , 2008

The Kyoto Protocol is an agreement that encourages the international community to find ways in to cooperate with the global issue of climate change . The Kyoto Protocol needs the cooperation of different states because the issue is not simply a state or regional issue , thus it is an interstate problem that every nation is facing . The problem of climate change is going beyond bs...