All 36 countries that signed up to the Kyoto agreement seemed to stay under, but it’s complicated.
Two positive climate-change stories in a row is surely too good to be true, right? Just days after writing about the promising technology that shows CO2 can be turned to rock in just two years, here I am looking at a really positive press release. It says that the 1997 Kyoto Protocol was an unmitigated success, with every single one of the 36 countries that signed up reducing their mean annual greenhouse gas emissions from 2008-2012 by an average of 5% relative to the levels seen in 1990.
The numbers have only just come in, and although overall global emissions rose, the 36 countries that signed and ratified Kyoto “surpassed their commitment” by 2.4 gigatonnes of CO2 per year.
Source: Alphr