Kyoto Deal struck1 November 2001
The Kyoto Protocol has survived the best efforts of countries like the US to kill it off. The President of the talks - Jan Pronk's new proposal has been agreed.
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Kyoto is still alive. But the price of success has been high. The Protocol has been heavily diluted. It's effect on climate change has been massively eroded. |
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Kate Hampton,
Friends of the Earth International Climate Co-ordinator
Is it any good?
Countries like Japan, Australia and Canada have succeeded in their attempts to water it down - and reduced the amount of real action industrialised nations will have to take.
Friends of the Earth will be demanding that the Kyoto Protocol comes into force as soon as possible. We will be ensuring that governments treat the Protocol as only the first step towards tackling man-made climate change.
There is still much more to be done to halt dangerous climate change.
