Meeting the goals of the Kyoto Protocol

Besides the long term availability of fossil energy resources the issue of climate change (or global warming) is the main topic of today’s energy policy discussion. The services provided aim to upgrade human skills, that are suitable to save energy, to raise energy efficiency and to substitute energy resources with high reference to greenhouse gas emissions.
Kyoto protocol

On December 11, 1997, in Kyoto, Japan, the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change reached agreement on the Kyoto Protocol, a treaty that would, after entering into force, require industrialized nations to reduce their emissions of greenhouse gases according to specific targets and timetables.

The Protocol marks an important milestone in the road toward achieving the Convention's ultimate objective of stabilizing greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere "at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system."

A key feature of the Protocol is its flexible market-based mechanisms, such as the International Emissions Trading Mechanism, which Parties may use to help achieve their emission targets and the Joint Implementation Among Developed Countries and the Clean Development Mechanism. These mechanisms are expected to reduce significantly the cost of compliance with the treaty.

The Kyoto Protocol set binding emissions targets for developed nations. The specific limits vary from country to country with an average targeted goal of 5.2% reduction until the years 2008-2012. The targets for major developed countries are: reduction 8 percent below 1990 emissions levels for the European Union, 7 percent for the United States, and 6 percent for Japan. The Kyoto Protocol opened for signature in March 1998. To enter into force, it must be ratified by at least 55 countries, accounting for at least 55 percent of the total 1990 carbon dioxide emissions of developed countries.