Date December 11, 2012
Tom Arup
ANALYSIS
IT WAS never meant to be more than an incremental step, but even on that modest test the United Nations climate change talks in Doha delivered little.
First the progress, however limited. The world's only climate change treaty, the Kyoto Protocol, was extended - as expected. The European Union and Australia signed on. But previous industrialised signatories Japan, Russia and Canada did not.
That leaves Kyoto weakened but alive. Countries get to choose their own 2020 emissions targets and will consider in 2014 whether to make them stronger.
A rough work plan was set for a new global agreement to be finalised in 2015 and come into force in 2020 .... http://www.mathaba.net
ANALYSIS
IT WAS never meant to be more than an incremental step, but even on that modest test the United Nations climate change talks in Doha delivered little.
First the progress, however limited. The world's only climate change treaty, the Kyoto Protocol, was extended - as expected. The European Union and Australia signed on. But previous industrialised signatories Japan, Russia and Canada did not.
That leaves Kyoto weakened but alive. Countries get to choose their own 2020 emissions targets and will consider in 2014 whether to make them stronger.
A rough work plan was set for a new global agreement to be finalised in 2015 and come into force in 2020 .... http://www.mathaba.net
