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Copenhagen climate conference opens

A deal is within our reach —- Danish Prime Minister, Lars Løkke Rasmussen.

Kyoto Protocol

The Kyoto Protocol is a protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC or FCCC), aimed at fighting global warming. The UNFCCC is an international environmental treaty with the goal of achieving "stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system."[1] The Protocol was initially adopted on 11 December 1997 in Kyoto, Japan and entered into force on 16 February 2005. As of November 2009, 187 states have signed and ratified the protocol.[2]

Second round of Bonn UN Climate Change negotiations continue

The 2013 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 16) negotiations continued this week in Bonn, Germany
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