Letting go of Kyoto

摘要

When government representatives gather for another round of United Nations climate-change negotiations later this month in Durban, South Africa, they face a familiar thicket of issues. Yet for many - and, no doubt, for headline writers around the world - one stands above all the rest: the survival or death of the Kyoto Protocol. Kyoto's emission targets expire at the end of 2012, making Durban the last chance to set new targets in time to avoid a commitment gap.