The Berlin Mandate led to the
Kyoto Protocol in 1997.
Maritime emissions were omitted from national commitments under the UNFCCC'S (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change) 1997
Kyoto Protocol, which ceded control to the UN body responsible for the sector, the International Maritime Organisation (IMO).
''If we throw the
Kyoto Protocol into a garbage can from Cancun, then we will be responsible for economi-cide, eco-cide -- therefore, genocide -- because we are attacking all of mankind,'' he said.
The Copenhagen conference was originally meant to agree the outlines of a broader global pact to succeed the
Kyoto Protocol.
Jordan also had been elected as member of the
Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) Executive Committee in Asia during Copenhagen Climate Change Conference, Environment Minister, Hazim Malhas said.
But unlike its earlier demand for a discussion on its plan for a new protocol, Thursday's demand at the plenary on
Kyoto Protocol was to amend it.
The conference foreshadows December's meeting in Copenhagen, where world leaders will iron out a successor to the
Kyoto Protocol.
Otherwise known as Clean Development Mechanisms (CDM) under the
Kyoto Protocol to reduce killer emissions around the world, these efforts are often far-ranging and score credits for Kyoto-ratified countries like the UAE, something that has not been taken enough advantage of, he added.
On December 3 2007 Prime Minister Kevin Rudd signed the instrument of ratification of the
Kyoto Protocol.
New Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said yesterday he had signed the paperwork to ratify the
Kyoto Protocol on global warming, nine days after sweeping to power in elections that ended more than 11 years of conservative rule.
Australia hopes to meet a greenhouse emissions level of just above its allocated target under the
Kyoto Protocol, Environment Minister Ian Campbell said this week.