Kyoto failures could cause emissions increase claims study

Emissions from industrialised countries could be 9% above 1990 levels by 2020 because of loopholes stemming from the Kyoto protocol, claims a study by the Stockholm Environment Institute and Third World Network. The study, which was presented at climate talks in Bonn in July, claims that the largest loophole is a surplus of Kyoto credits (AAUs) from the current commitment period. Another is a controversial accounting loophole for land use, land-use change and forestry (LULUCF) emissions. The third loophole is the fact that emissions from international aviation and shipping are excluded from Kyoto, and therefore from developed countries’ emissions accounting, while the fourth and final loophole is the clean development mechanisms (CDMs) operating in these countries.

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