International and Local Policies Against Climate Change

Questions to be addressed: Is there global warming/climate change and what does this mean internationally and locally? * Is there CO2 growth in the atmosphere, is there global warming and are they anthropogenic and connected? * What can be done against it in global and local level? Goals: to reduce on an international level and to adopt in a domestic level. 1. International Policies Against Climate Change The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC), 1992 Framework …

…the EU's Kyoto targets. Radical emission deductions (20%!!!) were proposed by the EU Commission until 2020. The Kyoto Protocol does not put emission reduction obligation on developing countries and one of the biggest polluters, the USA is not under the scheme. The negotiations on the future of Kyoto (after 2012) just have started in the forst COP/MOP1, where the parties discussed and adopted decisions on the outstanding operational details of the Kyoto Protocol, including the Marrakesh Accords.