Sunday, January 31, 2016

Starting with Article 4 of the Kyoto Protocol.

Article 4 

1. Any Parties included in Annex I that have reached an agreement to fulfil their commitments under Article 3 jointly, shall be deemed to have met those commitments provided that their total combined aggregate anthropogenic carbon dioxide equivalent emissions of the greenhouse gases listed in Annex A do not exceed their assigned amounts calculated pursuant to their quantified emission limitation and reduction commitments inscribed in Annex B and in accordance with the provisions of Article 3. The respective emission level allocated to each of the Parties to the agreement shall be set out in that agreement. 

The articles and annex mentioned will be read in order as they appear in the document. Kyoto Protocol was an ambitious attempt to bring balance back to Earth's troposphere. Part of the reason Kyoto Protocol was unable to contribute the full weight of the carbon emissions reductions within it's plan is because the USA government ignored the danger and Russia was late coming to ratify it.

2. The Parties to any such agreement shall notify the secretariat of the terms of the agreement on the date of deposit of their instruments of ratification, acceptance or approval of this Protocol, or accession thereto. The secretariat shall in turn inform the Parties and signatories to the Convention of the terms of the agreement. 

Kyoto Protocol was never litigated at the World Court for it's importance and the cooperation of the USA in stemming the dangerous greenhouse gases it was dumping into the troposphere. The USA was always a leader to the outcomes of such efforts, but, this time it showed the corrupt nature of it's government and indulgence of the US petroleum industry.

3. Any such agreement shall remain in operation for the duration of the commitment period specified in Article 3, paragraph 7. 

4. If Parties acting jointly do so in the framework of, and together with, a regional economic integration organization, any alteration in the composition of the organization after adoption of this Protocol shall not affect existing commitments under this Protocol. Any alteration in the composition of the organization shall only apply for the purposes of those commitments under Article 3 that are adopted subsequent to that alteration....