As Russian Firms Look to Cut Emissions, Medvedev Urges 'Global' Successor to Kyoto

摘要

Russia has called for a truly "global" agreement on climate change to succeed the Kyoto Protocol's emissions reduction mandates once they expire in 2012. "Regarding the post-Kyoto period, it is now obvious for Russia that there should be a global agreement joined by all, including those who did not join Kyoto process," Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said Oct. 2. Many major states did not join the Kyoto Protocol, Medvedev continued. "Unless they sign up, any [successor] agreements will become senseless."