Dismantling of a Breakthrough: The Kyoto Protocol - Just Symbolic Policy!

Dismantling of a Breakthrough: The Kyoto Protocol – Just Symbolic Policy!

We show that U.S. withdrawal from the Kyoto Protocol is straightforward under political economy considerations. The reason is that U.S. compliance costs exceed low willingness to pay for dealing with global warming in the U.S. The withdrawal had a crucial impact on the concretion of the Protocol prior to its likely ratification at the end of 2002. Remaining non-EU Parties to the Kyoto Protocol ...

The Kyoto protocol: just a lot of hot air.

Shaping Oregon Climate Policy in Light of the Kyoto Protocol

I. Climate Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210 R A. Basic Concepts and Historical Patterns . . . . . . . . 210 R B. Climate-Change Trends and Projected Impacts at the Global Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212 R C. Climate-Change Trends and Projected Impacts in the Pacific Northwest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....

1 The Kyoto Protocol : A Flawed Concept

In 2001 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued its Third Assessment Report on the prospects for and likely impact of increases in global average temperature over the next century. The summary report of Working Group 1, on science, widened the range of likely temperature increase, compared with the IPCC's Second Assessment Report five years earlier, to 1.4-5.8 degrees centigrade, w...

The Kyoto Protocol: A Review and Perspectives

International concern about climate change has led to the Kyoto Protocol, negotiated in 1997, which contains legally binding emission targets for industrialized countries to be achieved during the commitment period 2008-2012. While proponents of the Protocol celebrate it as a breakthrough in international climate policy, opponents criticize that its approach, namely setting targets and timetabl...