Global Warming Fight to Get Harder from 2012 (when Kyoto ends)

[papau]

Kyoto will brake rising world temperatures by only about 0.1C (0.2F), a pinprick compared to a forecast rise of 1.4-5.8C by 2100 - sigh....

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Global Warming Fight to Get Harder from 2012 (when Kyoto ends) -U.N

Wed Nov 24, 4:43 PM ET By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent

REYKJAVIK (Reuters) - Fighting global warming will get tougher once the Kyoto protocol ends in 2012 and the world must try to get Washington involved in the long term, the head of the U.N. Environment Program said on Wednesday.

Klaus Toepfer also welcomed Russia's ratification of the 128-nation plan, triggering a countdown to Kyoto's entry into force on February 16 next year even though the United States pulled out in 2001.

He said countries should already start planning for what he said would be harder, deeper curbs on emissions of heat-trapping gases after Kyoto. The pact aims to cut emissions by developed nations by 5.2 percent below 1990 levels by 2008-12.

"We have to discuss beyond Kyoto, we have to start the negotiations," he told Reuters on the sidelines of an eight-nation conference on a rapid thaw of the Arctic region.

He said Kyoto cuts could be easily reached like "low-hanging fruits" but that beyond Kyoto "you have really to ask about the energy structure in future, how do you change the carbon intensity, how to increase efficiency." <snip>

[tk2kewl]

1. If you can't stand the heat

propose manned missions to Mars.