Global: Looking to life after Kyoto

Even before the implementation of the Kyoto Protocol's first period can begin, a dialogue has been launched on limiting climate change after the current agreement ends in six years. And it is not too early. Questions enough have been raised about the Kyoto deal to question its continuation in its present form after the first implementation period 2008-2012. The Protocol, signed in Kyoto, Japan in December 1997, is an agreement by industrialised countries to reduce emissions of so-called greenhouse gases by at least 5.2 percent from 1990 levels over the first implementation period.