NationStates Jolt Archive

It has been what five years since they started negotiating it.

My curiosity of the moment is thus:

Has any country made any serious changes because of it?

Info is limited here. All you get is how Kyoto would have devistated the economy; it was wrong for the US.....

Let's not do the bashing thing. I am really curious to hear if other countries have really made any "serious" changes from it's signing.....

Sweden, from 2010 (I think) the government will hand out CO2 licenses and quotes to the industry (fun to know, a county in Sweden got a tip from a guy who has found a species of clams that by some chemical process clean the sea from CO2, they have already started a farm and sold the measured quotes to companies).

Kyoto is mostly dead in the EU, since the commitee they created to determine how to implement it fell apart. Individual countries in Europe may decide to implement changes on their own, but basically all of the signatories to Kyoto from Europe have no binding agreement to do anything (IIRC, the EU signed Kyoto but made its implementation contingent on agreement among its member nations). So now the only practical difference between the US and the EU is that they took longer in rejecting Kyoto.

Romania is the only country that has ratified it.