Energizing change

摘要

Everyone pretty much knows that the big three Es - economics, energy and the environment - must be constantly weighed against one and another. All three are important in the scheme of things for "life as we know and enjoy it" for a great many people. And there is concurrence that, in some major countries, energy and economics have ganged up on the environment. One of the results appears to be global warming which everyone, more or less, grudgingly agrees "could be" a worldwide problem, i.e. a problem shared by everyone. But by when, where and how to solve it? This is where the three big Es' many and varied constituent groups have had some trouble playing well together. The article examines the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Kyoto Protocol to UNFCCC and discusses to what extent they have been applied.