The second week in Nairobi started with new ideas, e.g. a more flexible aproach to include more countries and to avoid ‘islands’ of pollution.
Australian’s Environment Minister Ian Campbell’s suggested a ‘New Kyoto’ and earned laughter and the ‘Fossil of the Day’ award for this direction. Australian hasn’t signed Kyoto or established a emissions trading scheme.
He shares this award with Canadian Environment Minister Rona Ambrose quoted in Canadian press saying that Canada is meeting all of its responsibilities under the Kyoto protocol, except for the bit about emissions targets.
Canada has to cut its emissions by 6 percent by 2012 compared with 1990 levels, but it is exceeding this by about one-third and its emissions are on the rise.
EU climate expert Artur Runge Metzger hold a very condensed presentation ‘Battling global climate change - the EU’s perspective’ (part I, part II) showing EU’s strategies to meet the 2
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