ABOUT MECHANISMS OF IMPLEMENTATION OF THE KYOTO PROTOCOL IN THE TERRITORY OF THE TOMSK REGION

摘要

The Protocol of the Third Conference of Countries-Participants of the United Nation Framework Convention on Climate Change of December 10,1997 (Kyoto, Japan) establishes quotas of emission of anthropogenic greenhouse gases CO, CO{sub}2, SO{sub}x, NO{sub}x and C{sub}xH{sub}x (more than 10 compounds altogether) for each country. By 2010, highly developed countries will have to decrease the equivalent pollutant concentration (the parameter taking into account emissions of different pollutants, not only CO{sub}2), on average, by 6-8%. Because limitations on emissions are taken to mean not only limitations on harmful emissions but also limitations on the economic (primary industrial) activity, provision is made in the Protocol to trade in emission quotas with other countries. By a number of understandable reasons, Russia is among the potential sellers of quotas. Russia may sell at least 15% of the allocated quota to such countries as Japan, Korea, and EC countries. Notwithstanding great difficulties in signing the International Agreement mandatory for all countries (at present, only Germany observes the conditions of the Kyoto protocol), we must seek for methods and mechanisms of implementation of international and intergovernmental agreements on quota realization already now.