Kyoto Treaty on Global Climate
During a United Nations' conference of parties on December of 1997 in Kyoto Japan, the United Nations had a convention on climate change. In the convention the United Nations proposed a solution to the threat of climate change leading into an arrangement known as the Kyoto Treaty or Protocol on Global Climate Change. The Kyoto Treaty or Protocols aim is to combat the global warming by limiting emission Greenhouse gasses, Carbon dioxide CO2, Methane, Sox nitrous oxide NoX, hydorflourocarbon, perflourocarbon, and sulfur hexafluoride to 5-7% below the 1990 levels, the UN hopes to reach this aim during the period of 2008-2010. The Kyoto treaty or protocol is an extension of the Montreal Protocol which is a landmark international agreement designed to protect the stratospheric ozone layer. The treaty was originally signed in 1987 and substantially amended in 1990 and 1992. The Montreal Protocol requires that the production and consumption of compounds that eat up the ozone layer in the atmosphere chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), halons, carbon tetrachloride, and methyl chloroform are to be regulated out by 2000. So far about 168 nations have signed the treaty including 130 developed nations but not China nor India.
its causes: "these gasses, supporters say, are the main contributors to global warming that, if unchecked, will lead to such dire results as more severe flooding, catastrophic raises in sea level and the northern shift of agricultural production."(Pope Charles). Global Warming has caused that an about 5500 square kilometer piece of glacier from west Antarctica broke off on march 11 2002 along with the Antarctic Peninsula which lost about 3250 square kilometers of ice. "Such warming is not universal across Antarctica - on average the coastal regions about Antarctica are warming - and that trend is very strong in the Peninsula region. However continued warming and the progression southwards of the break up of ice shelves, are events we cannot ignore as indicators of the future impact on the main Antarctic ice sheet," Dr Young said. By these pieces breaking off, Antarctica would indirectly produce the sea level to rise when this ice melts. Once the sea level raises this can cause the weather to be disrupted. For example with a higher sea level there is also more water to be evaporated, this means that there will be more rain and this can cause problems in some regions. The raising level can also rob land from countries by flooding it or it can put cities such as New York, Long island, Amsterdam and Venice under the water, it can also cause more hurricanes, natural disasters, and contamination of drinking water. In recent years we have experienced the El Nino and La Nina phenomena. The United States refused to sign or support this international treaty. 4 percent of the US population is responsible for 20 to 25 percent of global emissions. However, president Bush only wants to slow down the growth of heat-rapping gasses but will not compile with the Kyoto treaty or protocol. The United States government under Bush' administration is trying to kill the Kyoto treaty. Some in the Republican senate have said "this treaty is dead". The United States fail to see that by reducing 5.2% (7%) of green house gases would make a difference on global climate change. The United States fear that this treaty would only cause economic problems and would cripple the economy, "that could cost 3.2 million jobs in the United States alone". Prices for gasoline will rise by 50-60 cents per gallon and energy prices would rise with this international treaty. Another reas
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