16 February 2005 will go down in history, for it is the day we begin to save the world.
On that date, the long-awaited Kyoto protocol will become law. The international treaty designed to curb global warming by cutting greenhouse gas emissions has spent the past seven years in limbo.
Carbon will instantly become a commodity that can be bought and sold, while the 30 industrialised countries signed up to the protocol will have to get to grips with meeting their emissions targets by 2012.
“This is a historic step forward in the world’s efforts to combat a global threat”…
