Key Nairobi outcome: review Kyoto by 2008
Ministers at the Nairobi UNFCCC COP have agreed to a review of the Kyoto Protocol. The review is to be concluded by 2008.
This proposed review of the effectiveness of the Kyoto Protocol could open the way to extending and widening it beyond 2012.
Russia has put forward a proposal to allow developing countries to sign up for cuts in greenhouse gas emissions under Kyoto.
German Environment Minister, Sigmar Gabriel, said the talks had achieved too little: "It's not enough, what we've reached in the conference," … "We have heard many things about national interests ... but relatively seldom about climate change".
Barbara Helfferich, spokeswoman for the European Commission said "If we get the ... review done in 2008 we are well on our way for a new climate change regime after 2012."
Kyoto obliges Annex 1 parties to cut emissions to 5 percent below 1990 levels by 2012. Those parties account for 30 percent of all GHG emissions.
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