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Barrett808 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-26-08 11:47 AM
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Iraq ratifies Kyoto Protocol on climate change
Source: (AFP

BAGHDAD (AFP) - Iraq has formally ratified the UN's Kyoto Protocol on climate change, according to a government statement seen by AFP on Saturday.

"The presidential council ratified in its session on January 23 a law according to which the Republic of Iraq will join the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and its Kyoto Protocol," the statement said.

The Kyoto Protocol legally commits industrialised countries which have signed and ratified it to trim their output of six carbon gases seen as being responsible for global warming.

Its framework was adopted on December 12, 1997 in Kyoto, Japan, by 159 states that are members of the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.






Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080126/wl_mideast_afp/iraqenvironmentkyoto_080126100422
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balantz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-26-08 11:56 AM
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1. Now that's just too cool!
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7 of 11 Donating Member (174 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-26-08 12:39 PM
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2. How does Edwards stand on Kyoto?
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Cessna Invesco Palin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-26-08 12:53 PM
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3. I am pretty sure that Iraq has met its Kyoto targets.
Having no economy tends to reduce emissions.
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patch1234 Donating Member (109 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-26-08 05:34 PM
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6. having no limit, means it is easy to meet the limit.
Iraq is not on Annex 1,
so Iraq has no numerical limitation.
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Uncle Joe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-26-08 02:27 PM
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4. That is cool, maybe the snow in Baghdad impressed up on them,
Edited on Sat Jan-26-08 02:59 PM by Uncle Joe
the growing volatility of the Earth's climate.

Thanks for the thread, Barrett.
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kimmylavin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-26-08 05:13 PM
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5. So its just us now?
A lone voice crying out against the evils of fighting global climate change? :sarcasm:
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