YEREVAN TO HOST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CLIMATE CHANGE

PanARMENIAN.Net
14.10.2009 21:20 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ On October 15, Yerevan will host an international
conference titled "Towards Copenhagen: Armenia in the run-up to 15th
session of UN Framework Convention on Climate Change". Event aims
at creating a group of public experts combating global warming and
elaborating proposals to countries which have acceded to UN Framework
Convention on Climate Change and Kyoto Protocol. Session is due on
December 17-18 in Copenhagen.

Discussion will focus on state parties’ (including Armenia and
international community’s) position on their obligation to reduce
emissions greenhouse gases, the main factor contributing to global
warming.

Kyoto Protocol is an international document adopted in Kyoto (Japan)
in December 1997. A supplement to UN Convention on Climate Change,
it obliges developed states and transitional economies to reduce
or stabilize greenhouse gas emissions in 2008-12 (compared to
1990). Protocol was open for signature from March 16, 1998 till March
15/ 1999.