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February 16, 2005 - The Kyoto Protocol went into effect after countries responsible for 55% of the world’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions had ratified the treaty, following Russia’s agreement to its terms. The agreement’s purpose was to reduce such gases to 12% below their levels in 1990 by 2012 and, thus, slow global warming.

180 countries had agreed (except for the United States and Australia, two of the world’s top emitters of GHG per capita) to rules for implementing the Kyoto Protocol on July 29, 2001, in Bonn, Germany. President George W. Bush withdrew the U.S. from the process shortly after he took office that same year. His reasoning was that, since India and China had not signed on, they would gain a competitive advantage. The U.S. is now responsible for 15.6% of the earth’s GHG (with 5% of its population).

#KyotoProtocol #ClimateDenialism

It also set up a process for negotiations between countries that have come to be known as the annual #UN #climate summits. It was under the #UNFCCC’s auspices that the #KyotoProtocol was negotiated in 1995, & the #ParisAgreement in 2015 — two monumental moments of global cooperation & progress toward limiting harmful climate #pollution.

#geopolitics #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #PublicHealth #Fight4aFuture #law

https://www.alojapan.com/1414074/theater-review-kyoto-thrilling-theater-at-lincoln-center/ Theater Review: ‘Kyoto,’ Thrilling Theater at Lincoln Center #BigOil #climate #ClimateChange #JoeMurphy #JoeRobertson #JorgeBosch #JustinMartin #KateBurton #Kyoto #KyotoNews #KyotoProtocol #NatalieGold #news #StephenDaldry #StephenKunken #京都 #京都府 Kyoto Based on events beginning in 1989 leading up to the 1997 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Kyoto, Japan, Joe Murphy and Joe Robrtson’s Kyoto explores what happens when nat

https://www.alojapan.com/1414074/theater-review-kyoto-thrilling-theater-at-lincoln-center/ Theater Review: ‘Kyoto,’ Thrilling Theater at Lincoln Center #BigOil #climate #ClimateChange #JoeMurphy #JoeRobertson #JorgeBosch #JustinMartin #KateBurton #Kyoto #KyotoNews #KyotoProtocol #NatalieGold #news #StephenDaldry #StephenKunken #京都 #京都府 Kyoto Based on events beginning in 1989 leading up to the 1997 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Kyoto, Japan, Joe Murphy and Joe Robrtson’s Kyoto explores what happens when nat

45 Years of Climate Conferences  
From first World Climate Conference in 1979 to COP29 in 2024, the journey of Climate Conferences has been a source of hope............
#CarbonDioxide #Carbonemission #climate #Climateaction #ClimateChange #ClimateChangeConference #climatefinance #CO2 #COP #COP28 #COP29 #GlobalWarming #Kyotoprotocol #Parisagreement #UNFCCC #UnitedNationsClimateChangeConference
Umesh Prasad

https://www.scientificeuropean.co.uk/environment/45-years-of-climate-conferences/

45 Years of Climate Conferences  
From first World Climate Conference in 1979 to COP29 in 2024, the journey of Climate Conferences has been a source of hope............
#CarbonDioxide #Carbonemission #climate #Climateaction #ClimateChange #ClimateChangeConference #climatefinance #CO2 #COP #COP28 #COP29 #GlobalWarming #Kyotoprotocol #Parisagreement #UNFCCC #UnitedNationsClimateChangeConference
Umesh Prasad

https://www.scientificeuropean.co.uk/environment/45-years-of-climate-conferences/

#ExxonKnew about #ClimateChange almost 40 years ago

A new investigation shows the oil company understood the science before it became a public issue and spent millions to promote #misinformation

By Shannon Hall on October 26, 2015

"One thing is certain: in June 1988, when #NASA scientist #JamesHansen told a congressional hearing that the planet was already warming, #Exxon remained publicly convinced that the science was still controversial. Furthermore, experts agree that Exxon became a leader in campaigns of confusion. By 1989 the company had helped create the #GlobalClimateCoalition (disbanded in 2002) to question the scientific basis for concern about climate change. It also helped to prevent the #USA from signing the international treaty on climate known as the #KyotoProtocol in 1998 to control #GreenhouseGases . Exxon’s tactic not only worked on the U.S. but also stopped other countries, such as #China and #India, from signing the treaty. At that point, 'a lot of things unraveled,' Oreskes says.

"But experts are still piecing together Exxon’s misconception puzzle. Last summer the Union of Concerned Scientists released a complementary investigation to the one by InsideClimate News, known as the Climate Deception Dossiers (pdf). 'We included a memo of a coalition of fossil-fuel companies where they pledge basically to launch a big communications effort to sow doubt,' says union president Kenneth Kimmel. 'There’s even a quote in it that says something like ‘Victory will be achieved when the average person is uncertain about climate science.’ So it’s pretty stark.'

"Since then, Exxon has spent more than $30 million on #ThinkTanks that promote ClimateDenial, according to #Greenpeace. Although experts will never be able to quantify the damage Exxon’s misinformation has caused, 'one thing for certain is we’ve lost a lot of ground,' Kimmell says. Half of the greenhouse gas emissions in our atmosphere were released after 1988. 'I have to think if the fossil-fuel companies had been upfront about this and had been part of the solution instead of the problem, we would have made a lot of progress [today] instead of doubling our greenhouse gas emissions.'"

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/exxon-knew-about-climate-change-almost-40-years-ago/

#ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #ClimateCatastrophe #ExtremeWeather #HexonExxon #BigOil