KYOTO
PROTOCOL
The international treaty to control the climate changes
11th DECEMBER
1997
11th December 1997
about 160 Nations joined in this
environmental international treaty.
16th February 2005
It became effective involving
expecially industrialized Countries.
Today
China, India and Usa haven’t signed
the protocol yet.
The world and Kyoto Protocol
Main points
• Reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of 5% against the
avarange levels of 1990 over the five year period 2008-2012 for the
most industrialized Nations];
GHG 
• Safeguarding “carbon sinks”as forests, wood, cultivated land etc.;
each Nation will elaborate a GHG emissions estimating system and
then the united Nations will find a way to face these air pollution.
The Nations helping the developing Countries reducing GHG
emissions will aquire “emission reduction units”
• Ways to reduce GHG emissions :
- EMISSION TRADING: control pollution by providing economic incentives;
- CLEAN DEVELOPEMENT MECHANISM: indistrialized Countries can
invest in reduction GHG emission’s projects for developing countries instead of
financing more expensive ones in their own nations.
- JOINT IMPLEMENTATION[JI] (art.6) allows a country with an emission reduction or
limitation commitment under the Kyoto Protocol (Annex B Party) to earn emission
reduction units (ERUs) from an emission-reduction or emission removal project in
another Annex B Party, each equivalent to one tonne of CO2, which can be counted
towards meeting its Kyoto target.
Italy and Kyoto Protocol
Italy and Kyoto Protocol
«Italy – said Corrado Clini – asks for a more
flexible attitude since without the USA
cooperation it will be very hard reaching any
goals».
from “La Repubblica”
02 giugno 2001
<<Kyoto, Italy runs the risk of failure >>
“Repubblica”
16 febbraio 2005
Fresh-industrialized countries should
join us in the Kyoto Protocol
by Edo Ronchi, an Italian subsciber of the Protocol
President of Italian Republic’s speech with the
young people of the United World College
• What role does Italy has in reducing global
warming?
“ We need worldwide scale solutions […]The world is
very small”
“USA, China and India’s influence in energetic
requirement and environmental problems is bound to
become greater and greater.”
Meeting of 15th November 2007 in Quirinale Palace
Giorgio Napolitano ’s speech
The Earth is sick…don’t let it
down,
answer to its call!
Written by Valentina Pessina and Valentina Labattaglia