Japan set to endorse Kyoto Protocol as Bush flies in

iranian energy and climate policies adaptation to the kyoto protocol

the aim of this paper is to assess the adaptation of iran’s energy policies to the kyoto protocol. in the past two decades, iran has experienced a considerable increase in greenhouse gas (ghg) emissions; in 2013 it was the world’s ninth largest emitter. although adapting to this protocol in iran’s energy and climate policies seems vital and urgent, its recent status is not promising. this paper...

Multi-Gas Strategy in Committing to the Kyoto Protocol

Though the Kyoto Protocol concerns six greenhouse gases, most appraisals in the past have focused exclusively on CO2. But it is now acknowledged that, at least for some countries, there is an important potential of abating non-CO2 greenhouse gases with a relatively low cost. It is then the topic of the paper to present a multi-gas assessment of the Kyoto Protocol and to compare the results with...

What Makes Greenhouse Sense ? Time to Rethink the Kyoto Protocol

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...

An Economic Analysis of the Kyoto Protocol

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