Greenhouse gas emissions drop 0.1% in developed world
November 17, 2008
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change announced today that greenhouse gas emissions from industrialized nations declined one-tenth of one percent (0.1%) in 2006, the most recent year data is available.
According to the report, 20 nations that signed the 1997 Kyoto Protocol are projected to miss their obligations under the treaty, while 16 countries are on target.
The organization’s 192 members are scheduled to meet in Poznan, Poland in two weeks, to resume efforts to devise a successor treaty to Kyoto, which expires in 2012.
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