... economies, media assets and civil society groups would be wise to reexamine the benefits and the costs of the Paris climate deal. Climate change is realAccording to the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Agency (NOAA) in the United States, the Earth's globally averaged surface temperature has been rising for over a century.But in the period starting ... ... states who are major economic powers. Considering that the United States under former president Bill Clinton did not ratify the Kyoto Protocol the bluster of president Trump raises the question of whether there is some game theory (beyond Trump's “Art ...
... technicalities will continue in Lima.
What about Russia? Is it going to increase its role in this area of international cooperation and in what way, should it happen?
Since Russian leaders stayed away from the New York conference, one might presume that climate change is not on Moscow's priority list. Russia refused to give quantitative commitments within round two of the Kyoto Protocol, but at the same time passed a national law to reduce emissions by 2020 to 75 percent of 1990 volumes. In New York, Russia showed a readiness to participate in the post-Kyoto agreement and cut emissions by 2020 to 70-75 percent of 1990 ...
... most, but recently large emerging economies have been catching up owing to their rapid development. In 2012,
already 60% of all global emissions originated in non-OECD countries
, with China being the top emitter and India coming third, after the US.
UN Convention on Climate Change and Kyoto Protocol
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Global emissions since Kyoto
In 1992, nations agreed on the need for international action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to impacts of climate change under the
UN Framework Convention on Climate Change ...
