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Stop climate change
Beyond Kyoto
On 16 February 2005, the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) entered into force. The 1997 Kyoto Protocol is an important first step in the global fight against climate change. It commits industrialised countries to legally-binding targets to limit their greenhouse gas emissions. The EU has adopted a target to decrease its emissions by 8% compared to 1990 levels during the commitment period 2008-2012.
Climate change and the EU
The Kyoto Protocol alone will not stop climate change, however. That's why the EU is starting to discuss its post-2012 (post-Kyoto) climate strategy. Greenpeace supports using the Kyoto Protocol as the building block for the post-2012 framework and urges the EU to commit to the following:
- To continue to be a climate change leader by showing its willingness and intent to press ahead with the second commitment period of Kyoto.
- To adopt legally binding greenhouse gas reduction targets that are consistent with limiting temperature rise to below 2°C. This translates into targets of at least -15% by 2015 and at least -30% by 2020 (compared to 1990 levels).
- To have a long-term vision to achieve greenhouse gas emission reductions of 80% by 2050 (compared to 1990 levels).
- To ensure that action in all policy areas (especially energy, transport, agriculture, chemicals and development) contributes to its 2°C target.
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