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Copenhagen Treaty

Clean Skies News will be covering the Copenhagen climate change conference in Copenhagen, Denmark. The Copenhagen summit is a conference on climate change held by the G20 and UN. Climate Change Conference Copenhagen is meant to be the place where the UN nations arrive at a Copenhagen Protocol much like the Kyoto Protocol, an international agreement created by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, a global warming conference in 1997.

Kyoto Protocol: History

The major purpose of the Kyoto Protocol was to set binding targets for 37 industrialized countries and the European community for reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. These reductions amount to an average of five per cent against 1990 levels over the five-year period 2008-2012.

The major distinction between the Protocol and the Convention is that while the Convention encouraged industrialized countries to stabilize GHG emissions, the Protocol commits them to do so.

Recognizing that developed countries are principally responsible for the current high levels of GHG emissions in the atmosphere as a result of more than 150 years of industrial activity, the Protocol places a heavier burden on developed nations under the principle of “common but differentiated responsibilities.”  The Kyoto Protocol was adopted in Kyoto, Japan, on 11 December 1997 and entered into force on 16 February 2005. 184 Parties of the Convention have ratified its Protocol to date.

Copenhagen Global Warming Conference

The Copenhagen climate agenda will play host to many events including a series of climate conferences in Copenhagen scheduled for leaders of many of the worlds most powerful nations; a conference on clean energy, conference of the parties, Copenhagen carbon conference, conference on environment studies, conference on ecological studies, Copenhagen Science conference.  All meetings aim to help achieve a final Copenhagen climate treaty.

CleanSkies.com will bring you all the Copenhagen Climate Conference News as well as any news surrounding a Copenhagen Treaty. Clean Skies News will provide a daily Copenhagen Report from the global climate change conference Copenhagen detailing each day's events, including interviews, recaps of debates and discussions from the UN climate conference.

Many heads of state will not be attending the UN Copenhagen Climate Conference. The Copenhagen Conference December 7 - 18, 2009 is the major event of the global climate change season. Although most governments don't expect there to be a binding Copenhagen Climate Treaty, there is still hope that from the Climate Conference in Copenhagen a foundation will be laid on which to build future progress by nations pushing for a global climate treaty.