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Kyoto Protocol
1 The Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in
1992 marked the first real
international attempt to cooperate to
reduce carbon emissions
1.1 The aim of the earth summit was
to halt the destruction of
irreplaceable natural resources
2 Bigger, richer, more
developed countries agreed
there would be no raise in
carbon emissions
2.1 They can afford to purchace and
put money into very expensive
machenery such as wind turbines
2.2 Most of the most developed countries
also have very high carbon emissions to
to advance,ments in technology
3 It was established in 1997
3.1 The Conference of the Parties to the United
Nations Framework Convention on climate
change was held in Kyoto, Japan
3.1.1 Hence the name Kyoto Protocol
4 Each individual country
has its own target
4.1 This is due to the fact that different
countries are more developed than others
4.2 Some countries can afford to
buy wind turbine etc. which can
be very expensive to set up
5 The treaty became legally
binding in the year 2005
5.1 This was encouraging sign that
we were beginning to take our
roles seriously when helping
protect the earth
6 Over 100 developing
countries have been
exempted from the treaty
6.1 Such as India and China
6.1.1 Because of the exemptions of India
and China, countries such as the USA
and Australia originally opted out
7 The Agreement included a promise to
reduce green house gasses to 5% below
1990 levels between 2008 and 2012
7.1 If counties failed to reach their designated
targets they would be fined and the money
would be put towards better purposes
7.2 The protocol has had successes and
failures - The UK has cut down over
their target carbon footprint
8 192 countries have
joined the protocol
8.1 We want to have comfortable lives now and
reduce climate change and global warming
8.2 We also want to create a sustainable future
ensuring that future generations live
comfortable with renewable sources of energy