Kyoto Protocol’s Days May be Numbered

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CNSnews:

(CNSNews.com) – As the Kyoto Protocol’s 2012 expiration date draws closer, U.N. climate negotiations underway in Bangkok this week appear no closer to reaching an agreement that would extend or replace it.

Delegates representing more than 170 countries are meeting in the Thai capital, attempting to advance the marathon process that began with the 1992 U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change and its first “conference of the parties” (COP), in Berlin in 1995.
In each of the 16 years since then, tens of thousands of delegates have traveled to destinations in Europe, Asia and the Americas for “crucial” annual summits aimed at advancing the campaign to combat climate change. Now the centerpiece of that campaign, the Kyoto Protocol, looks increasingly at risk of demise.

Under the 1997 protocol, almost 40 industrialized nations were required to cut their emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other “greenhouse gases” blamed for climate change, by prescribed amounts up until 2012.