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"Economists have estimated that full implementation of the kyoto protocol without modification would result in an economic cost with a present value of $1.5 trillion, borne mainly by wealthy countries.5 But the pain that would be caused by international efforts to control emissions could be greater still. By some accounts, the reductions proposed by the kyoto protocol are not nearly enough to deal with the problems of greenhouse gas emissions. In 1995 the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change called for greenhouse emissions to be cut immediately by 50-70%." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.) "The level of concern with the adverse effects of these emissions has been such that the 1997 kyoto protocol proposed that thirty-eight industrially advanced countries of the world cut emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases by an average of 5.2% of 1990 levels during the period from 2008 to 2012. The protocol called for the creation a global emission trading scheme that would set a market price on emissions and help foster an orderly distribution of the burden of the controls." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.) "By some accounts, the reductions proposed by the kyoto protocol are not nearly enough to deal with the problems of greenhouse gas emissions. In 1995 the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change called for greenhouse emissions to be cut immediately by 50-70%. But instead the level of emissions has continued to grow rapidly, with most of the increase coming from the developing countries. It is impossible to predict the ultimate cost to individuals and corporations of efforts to reduce emissions or to deal with other global limits to growth." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"Today, of course, with the kyoto protocol, our ideas are global and a new market for carbon credits has assigned additional value to our rain forests as polluting offsets. Costa Rica is by no means perfect, but what a comeback this country is making. I hope that President Oscar Arias Sanchez will resist free trade with America and insist on fair trade with good intentions for both nations. Costa Rica is where I came up with the title of this book. It is a land Tom Newmark fell in love with, Brian Hall fell in love with, I fell in love with, and Herb Lewis and Peter Schulick." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.) "Thanks to the sweeping green consciousness, companies are dramatically reducing greenhouse gas emissions, often exceeding the kyoto protocol targets.26 Alcoa, a world leader in aluminum manufacturing, committed to reducing emissions by 25 percent from 1990 levels by 2010, and by 50 percent from 1990 levels over the same period if their inert anode technology yields anticipated energy savings. "A key factor in reducing greenhouse emissions is energy efficiency," according to John Pizzey, Aloca executive vice president in a September 30, 2002, speech to his employees. " - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"One of the elements of the kyoto protocol is the use of carbon "markets" as incentive for countries to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. Countries that produce C02 in amounts below the treaty limits, and countries not currently bound by the treaty (for now—other than the United States and Australia—mostly developing nations) can sell carbon-emission rights to countries that produce C02 in amounts above the treaty limits." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"The researchers totted up the carbon balance sheet and discovered - irony of ironies - that the 13 million tonnes of carbon British soils were emitting annually was enough to wipe out all the country's efforts to comply with the kyoto protocol, the UN agreement which requires the United Kingdom to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 12.5 per cent by 2012. Whilst the Hadley team found that all the world's soils were affected to some extent by global warming, the epicentre of this transformation would be the Amazon." - Mark Lynas, Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet (Get the book.)

"The EU's fifteen core members, which signed the kyoto protocol in 1997, committed to reducing their emissions by 8 percent by 2012; new members committed to reductions of 6 to 8 percent (excluding Cyprus and Malta, which have no reduction targets).27 Now the EU was placing this effort at the heart of European diplomacy. "There are some ideological differences between the approach of the Bush administration and that of the European Union [on climate change]," the EU's representative Magnus Gislev explained. " - Mark Schapiro, Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power (Get the book.)

"This approach has been approved for international trading in emissions under the kyoto protocol to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and also has been used in other sectors in the United States, such as trading in water use reduction permits in California. Macroeconomics Macroeconomics is the top-down study of the economy as a whole: output, employment, price levels, and rate of growth. It provides ways to analyze such issues as levels of output, business cycles, inflation and deflation, short- and long-term unemployment, exports, and economic development." - The New York Times, The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge: A Desk Reference for the Curious Mind (Get the book.)

"The programs that have been advanced during the last few years, notably the kyoto protocol, have had great difficulty gaining traction in the U.S. The problem is not only the actual physical pollutants unleashed by our activities, but also our unwillingness as a nation to muster the will to do anything about it. The problem is not a failure of programs; we have plenty of those. We have plenty of intelligence and ingenuity, but we are suffering a failure of will. We need to muster the will, the vision, and the initiative to dig in and do something." - APC Books, Healing Our Planet, Healing Our Selves: The Power of change Within to Change the World (Get the book.)

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