Survival Of Kyoto Protocol

By Batu Uprety

Climate change-induced disasters are increasing and have largely affected the people and their livelihood. Climate change was realized nearly three decades back, and legally-binding instruments - the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Kyoto Protocol (KP) - were adopted in 1992 and 1997 respectively. The Convention and the Protocol provision for taking necessary actions in addressing the on-going and emerging threats of climate change.

Parties to the Convention and the Protocol meet every year and decide measures for their effective implementation. Recently, Parties met at Doha, Qatar, from 26 November and to 7 December 2012, and have made many decisions to implement the Convention and the Protocol. As this author mentioned in the previous article, there were seven sessions at Doha namely: (i) 18th session of the COP (Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC); (ii) 8th meeting of the CMP (COP serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the KP); (iii) 37th session of the Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI); (iv) 37th session of the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA); (v) Ad-hoc Working (AWG) on Long-term Cooperative Action (LCA); (vi) AWG on Further Commitments for Annex I Parties to the KP; and (vii) AWG on Durban Platform for Enhanced Action (ADP).

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