A new round of emissions reduction targets in the Kyoto Protocol Dystocia

A new round of emission reduction targets in the Kyoto Protocol the developed countries ' negotiators have avoided talking about the targets of 2020, and many environmental groups have criticized the developed countries ' existing emission reduction commitments and scientific requirements Li Hujun Huangshan from Copenhagen in a battlefield without US participation, the EU and other developed countries and developing countries are still arguing.　　At a meeting of the Kyoto Protocol's Ad Hoc Working Group on the afternoon of December 15, Copenhagen local time, when the moderator asked the developed countries negotiators how to increase emissions by the scope of the scientific requirements, the negotiators of the developed countries were collectively silent. According to scientific advice from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), in 2020, developed countries should reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 25% to 40%, based on 1990. Developing countries require this data to be above 40% per cent.　　In any case, developed countries should step up their emissions reductions in the Kyoto Protocol's second commitment period, from 2013 to 2020.　　Thus, the negative attitudes of developed countries have been criticized by a number of environmental groups. According to Greenpeace, the developed countries are now verbally committed to reducing their emissions by 16% to 23% per cent, excluding the United States, and a few percentage points will fall in the developed countries ' commitment to a homogeneous emission reduction target, if the US targets are taken into account.　　This is clearly a far cry from the scientific requirements.　　The World Wide Fund for Nature said that it had identified loopholes in the accounting for various greenhouse gas emissions, and that if these accounting loopholes were to be made up, the level of emissions in developed countries by 2020 might have increased compared with 1990. 8 o'clock on the evening of December 15, the open meeting of the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Kyoto Protocol, which had only been in place for more than half an hour, was hastily concluded.　　The parties will resume closed-door consultations.　　As of 11 o'clock local time, negotiations on an amendment to the Kyoto Protocol have yet to result. This article is from Hu Shuli, our network