GreenPeace BlogKyoto is there still hope?
… or, Why must U.S. and China do in Durban thisFrom 28 November to 9 December 2011 will take place in Durban, South Africa, the 17th International climate conference. For us locally: Martin Kaiser, Head of International Climate Policy at Greenpeace. Since the climate conference in Copenhagen, the Kyoto Protocol has been repeatedly declared 'dead'.But the fact is that the first commitment period will end in 2012. Only in Durban will decide whether and how it continues. But it does not look good. Why the future of the Kyoto Protocol to the future of UN climate efforts is so important?
The following are reasons
, CAP ': The Kyoto Protocol, the principle of mandatory reduction targets for industrialized countries in the first commitment period adopted. It a flexible system of trading pollution rights was linked by the company concerned. This principle, to undertake States is the only way to buffer the global climate change. Investment decisions in favor of renewable energies alone are not sufficient to limit global warming to two degrees Celsius. The pollution of the atmosphere for the perpetrators must have a high price.The diplomatic Bridge: The climate is not to save with Kyoto alone. The Kyoto Protocol includes far too few Verschmutzerstaaten with one another and the support of Russia and Japan is very uncertain. A second Kyoto Protocol is urgently needed. This would take another five years for developed countries have a special responsibility. They are historically the worst polluters. Without their commitment, it will not succeed diplomatically, that China and Brazil, a climate protection agreement and agree to limit their emissions. What does this mean for Durban?
Climate protection can be achieved only if it is the future for global corporations no longer worthwhile to invest in oil and coal – whether in the U.S., Europe or China. CO2 consumption must get a high price. This can be achieved only through high-set, mandatory reduction targets Hauptverschmutzerländer and their companies. Take the ministers in Durban Kyoto before the wall tilts, this principle, this mechanism that we desperately need for the U.S. or China.
enough?
Especially emerging markets are on the second commitment period of Kyoto. Kyoto 2 must be linked strongly to a negotiating mandate. This must ensure that no later than 2015 is to create a comprehensive climate protection treaty, which takes all major Verschmutzerländer accountable. So the U.S. but also China
Progress in the implementation of Cancun in Durban will play a role. Critical to our climate the fight will be: Kyoto 2 for a strong negotiating mandate with the U.S. and China
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