Iraq ratifies Kyoto Protocol on climate change

[Barrett808]

Source: (AFP

BAGHDAD (AFP) - Iraq has formally ratified the UN's Kyoto Protocol on climate change, according to a government statement seen by AFP on Saturday.

"The presidential council ratified in its session on January 23 a law according to which the Republic of Iraq will join the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and its Kyoto Protocol," the statement said.

The Kyoto Protocol legally commits industrialised countries which have signed and ratified it to trim their output of six carbon gases seen as being responsible for global warming.

Its framework was adopted on December 12, 1997 in Kyoto, Japan, by 159 states that are members of the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080126/wl_mideast_afp/iraqenvironmentkyoto_080126100422

[balantz]

1. Now that's just too cool!

[7 of 11]

2. How does Edwards stand on Kyoto?

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

3. I am pretty sure that Iraq has met its Kyoto targets.

Having no economy tends to reduce emissions.

[patch1234]

6. having no limit, means it is easy to meet the limit.

Iraq is not on Annex 1,
so Iraq has no numerical limitation.

[Uncle Joe]

4. That is cool, maybe the snow in Baghdad impressed up on them,

the growing volatility of the Earth's climate.

Thanks for the thread, Barrett.

[kimmylavin]

5. So its just us now?

A lone voice crying out against the evils of fighting global climate change? :sarcasm: