Importance of the Kyoto Protocol

Scientifically proven and with vast material that reaffirms it, global warming is a problem that we are beginning to see the consequences now and that probably, if it is not stopped, it will leave more damage in the future than we can really suspect. Faced with this urgent concern, the different States of the world adhered to the UN and its Convention on the Climate change They have created a protocol known as the Kyoto Protocol that has a central value to plan the arrest and retraction of the damage generated by this complex phenomenon.

Origin framework and characteristics of a document to save the planet

The problem of climate change and the damage it generates to the planet's ecosystems is something that has been raised publicly for many decades. It wasn't until the mid-1990s that this problem began to be seen more clearly and was taken seriously as a future threat. The use and abuse that human beings have made of natural resources and environments of the planet, especially since world economies have expanded with the

Industrial Revolution of the 18th century, has generated serious injuries to nature and this is what has transformed many elements that were previously they were different, for example the temperature, the strength and regularity of the precipitations, the droughts, the extinction of animals, etc

It is in this environment, when nature began to give signs of concern to human beings in their daily life environments through through floods, hurricanes, maximum temperatures, etc., that the Kyoto Protocol was developed, a type of agreement international forum in which a large number of countries participated from the beginning to commit to reducing greenhouse gas emissions. polluting gases. The relevance of this agreement was centered on the fact that it sought to redirect the economies of each country to make them healthier and more ecological, limiting and reversing as much as possible the damage caused to the planet.

The answers and results that disappoint many

Twenty years after this protocol was signed, the results are still conspicuous by their absence and the progress of climate change has not changed as expected. Although transformations in Third World economies have often helped to improve the statistics, it was known from the beginning that First World countries or developed countries were who else responsibility they had on pollution and that therefore they were the ones who had to urgently modify the base of their industrial and chemical production.

In recent times, the United States has made progress on this issue, especially with regard to the use of renewable energy, with former President Obama committing to reduce gas emissions by 30% by the year 2030, but in 2017 President Donald Trump indicated that he would not ratify the agreement, taking away the centrality of the problem of climate change in his administration. For their part, regions such as Canada, the European Union or Russia have not yet been able to fully commit themselves to this work and put obstacles mainly due to the condition of transforming their productive economies, the basis of their wealth and development.

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