Should the United States Ratify the Kyoto Treaty?
global warming gas emissions and hopefully reduce global warming.[1] When the convention met five years later in Kyoto, Japan, many of the EDCs had shown no progress in their goal of reducing emissions. Negotiations in Kyoto then took place, leading to the Kyoto Treaty. In this treaty, EDCs are required to reduce greenhouse emissions by 2012 to about seven percent below their 1990 levels.1 The treaty also allows EDCs to trade emissions quotas among themselves, and no sanctions are set for failure to meet each country’s goals. Also included in this treaty is the fact that LCD’s were exempted from binding standards.1 In order to be put into play, the treaty has to be ratified by they 55-55 rule, which states that “…at least 55 ratifications (are needed) by industrialized countries emitting 55 percent of the CO2, including the EDCs, Russia, and Eastern Europe”.1 President Clinton supported the Kyoto Treaty, but due to the amount of opposition against the treaty, did not sign it himself.
