The UNFCCC, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change was created in 1992 by the United Nations to address the issues that arise from Global Warming (2). Through ongoing conferences, the group (including 180 nations) makes aggressive decisions to attack Global Warming (3). "What is needed is a breakthrough in the form of a road map for a future international agreement on enhanced global action to fight climate change" (4). The UNFCCC is aimed at the "stabilization of atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system" (6).
In December of 1997 the Convention adopted the Kyoto Protocol (6b). Including the same ideas and goals as the Convention, the Protocol is a written binding contract for all countries included. Among the countries that have not joined are the United States and Australia(2).
I will explain in a later post what the Kyoto Protocol entails.
2 comments:
I was very dismayed when I read in your blog that the United States decided against joining the Kyoto Protocol. What was the reasoning behind that decision and who made that choice for the country?
How come the United States and Australia haven't joined the Protocol?
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