Today begins the climate summit in Bonn.

2001/07/16 Elhuyar Zientzia

• Klima
• Ingurumena

This is
the first time since the United States declared that it will not ratify the Kyoto Protocol, the states of the world will meet, but things are not expected to change too much. However, Japan, Canada and Australia do not seem to have much intention of ratifying the protocol. Being the states that emit the most gases, advancing without them will not be very effective.

In recent months the European Union has repeatedly called for the Kyoto Protocol and tried to change its mind to President George Bush. However, there has been no fruit. Japan, Australia and Canada have been launched on the road opened by Bush, and efforts to recover them will be the focus of the Bonn meeting. The European Union wants to ratify the Kyoto Protocol and put it into effect within the timeframe, that is, in 2002. But the differences are too big and it seems that Kyoto is about to die.

The European Union and the United States have one of their major conflicts around carbon dioxide deposits. The latter argues that forests absorb a large amount of carbon dioxide, so they want to be considered as sinks to exchange the carbon dioxide emitted with the absorbed by forests. There are large forests in the United States and there is a lot of pressure on this issue. But the enemy has been found at home when two American researchers have shown that forests emit no more carbon dioxide than they emit.

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