Kyoto Accord
...gas emissions becoming part of our everyday vocabulary. Finally, the world has caught up with environmental issues. The Kyoto Protocol, which was ratified in Kyoto, Japan in 1997, has become a major global issue. There are different views of Kyoto, mainly due to lack of knowledge regarding how people perceive how it would affect their day-to-day lives, and how such a change could have such a significant impact on the environment. People feel that Kyoto is unreachable, unsustainable and as good of a gesture it is to solve global issues, the feel it is unrealistic. They also feel that due to there being no restriction on developing nations like India and China, it is unfair towards developed nations. China is expected to exceed the United States in emissions released into the environment by the year 2009. (Levent) These people are misguided in their ways, as they do not know that Kyoto is reachable, and can be successful if it is adopted by all nations. Kyoto will successful because there are many alternatives, it is driven by fear, and it provides an even playing field which will provide economic stability.
The Kyoto Accord has many outlined processes which aim to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Kyoto allows countries to use different mechanisms such as clean development, joint implementation, and emission trading. The clean development mechanism allows countries to exceed their emission regulation in the present as long as they dedicate themselves to lowering the emissions in the future. Things like solar panels to provide energy and more efficient boilers would be an effective tool. Countries also have to devote some of their finances toward planting trees. This will help lower emissions as trees thrive on carbon dioxide. The protocol is aware that having a long term goal to reduce emissions might involve an increase right now. Britain has implemented a new...
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