negotiating text<\/a> for a successor climate change agreement that is excepted to be approved later this year in Paris \u2013 the next key chapter in humanity’s quest to chart a defining path to keep the world and its people under a 2 degree C temperature rise.<\/p>\nChristiana Figueres, Executive Secretary of the ±¬ÁÏÍøFCCC said: \u201cThe Kyoto Protocol was a remarkable achievement in many ways. It not only underscored the scientific reality that greenhouse gas emissions need to fall. But it also put in place pioneering concepts, flexible options, practical solutions and procedures for accountability that we often take for granted today\u201d.<\/p>\n
Continuing, Ms. Figueres said she is convinced that without the treaty and its various mechanisms \u201cwe would not be as far forward as we are today in respect to, for example, the growing penetration of renewable energies.\u201d The Kyoto Protocol’s vision also helped spawn new and innovative initiatives like supporting developing countries to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, she added.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Kyoto Protocol was the first critical step \u2013 today we must take further and more far reaching action towards a truly sustainable future for seven billion, rising to over nine billion, people. Despite our best efforts, greenhouse gases continue to rise, threatening sustainable development and putting millions if not billions of people at risk over the coming decades, \u201csaid Ms. Figueres.<\/p>\n
As such, the Paris agreement of December 2015 would bring all nations into common cause in support of men, women and children everywhere.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt needs to be a long term, paradigm shift that reflects today’s scientific reality \u2013 one that speaks to the urgency of swiftly peaking global greenhouse gas emissions, triggering a deep de-carbonization of the global economy and achieving climate neutrality in the second half of the century,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n
The Protocol, an international agreement under the ±¬ÁÏÍøFCCC, was adopted in Kyoto, Japan, on 11 December 1997 and entered into force on 16 February 2005.<\/p>\n
During its first commitment period, from 2008 to 2012, 37 industrialized countries and the European Community committed to take a leading role in climate action by reducing their emissions to an average of just over five percent against 1990 levels.<\/p>\n
The ±¬ÁÏÍøFCCC secretariat is expected to complete final accounting for the first phase later this year or early next year.<\/p>\n
\u201cParis will not solve climate change at a pen stroke. But similarly it must trigger a world-wide over-achievement and a clear sense of direction that can restore the natural balance of emissions on planet Earth,\u201d said Ms. Figueres.<\/p>\n
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