World leaders will gather in Nairobi, Kenya, next month for the COP 12 summit on climate change – the 12th “Conference of the Parties” since the Rio Earth summit in 1992 concluded with a pledge to tackle climate change with the creation of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
A key focus of the summit will be the future of climate change abatement after the first committment period of the Kyoto Protocol concludes in 2012. But another obvious, and interlinked focus, will the growing importance of clean development in the developing world. And renewable energy must play a huge role in that development. The current Finnish presidency of the Euorpean Union noted yesterday that it is significant that for the first tim the conference of the parties is happening in sub-Saharan Africa.
The significance cannot be understated. While the first Kyoto committment period focused, rightly, on the developed world [...]
Developing world renewables – key questions for Nairobi
World leaders will gather in Nairobi, Kenya, next month for the COP 12 summit on climate change – the 12th “Conference of the Parties” since the Rio Earth summit in 1992 concluded with a pledge to tackle climate change with the creation of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
A key focus of the summit will be the future of climate change abatement after the first committment period of the Kyoto Protocol concludes in 2012. But another obvious, and interlinked focus, will the growing importance of clean development in the developing world. And renewable energy must play a huge role in that development. The current Finnish presidency of the Euorpean Union noted yesterday that it is significant that for the first tim the conference of the parties is happening in sub-Saharan Africa.
The significance cannot be understated. While the first Kyoto committment period focused, rightly, on the developed world [...]
Original post by The Heritage Foundation – 2006-06-12