International climate agreements
From Envirowiki
The major international climate agreement is the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, which includes all countries, and is the framework under which the Kyoto Protocol was decided, and the new protocol will be decided on in Copenhagen in 2009.
There is also an agreement between a number of the world's biggest emitters, including Australia, the US, China, Japan and India called the Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate. It's mostly greenwash, with no hard targets, only "aspirational targets" - ie. bullshit.
[edit] 1 Vienna 2007
At the Vienna Climate Change Talks 2007, Parties to the Kyoto Protocol agreed to work based on a range of emission reduction objectives of Annex I Parties of 25-40 per cent below 1990, which is in line with the most stringent IPCC scenario.
[edit] 2 Bali 2007
In December 2007, in Bali, the COP MOP for the Kyoto Protocol discussed future emissions reduction scenarios. There was an agreed emissions reduction range for industrialised nations of 25-40% which had been carried forward from the Vienna talks earlier that year when parties agreed to work based on a range of emission reduction objectives of Annex I Parties of 25-40 per cent below 1990, which is in line with the most stringent IPCC scenario.
Paragraph 3 of the work plan negotiated under Conclusions adopted by the Ad Hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for Annex I Countries under the Kyoto Protocol[1] includes this agreement between Annex I countries.
At Bali, UNFCCC Executive Secretary, Yvo de Boer, said, “what is clear to everyone is that industrialized countries must continue to take the lead and must reduce their emissions by 25-40% by 2020. That is the agreed range for industrialized countries.”[2]
See Holmes Hummel’s useful hotlinked logic on the matter: http://www.holmeshummel.net/2C-Target-Range.htm
