From the Editor: The problem with global climate policy? There is none [Gas in Transition]

From the Editor: The problem with global climate policy? There is none [Gas in Transition]

In the three decades since the Rio Summit created the UNFCC, global climate policy has seen a hodge-podge of accords, mandates and protocols. That has produced another hodge-podge of national aspirations, but little in the way of concerted, co-ordinated efforts to reduce emissions. by: Dale Lunan

In 1992, the Rio Earth Summit begat the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) and the infamous Conference of the Parties (COP), an annual gabfest intended to bring the nations of the world together to address what was then seen as a troubling increase in global temperatures. COP1 in Berlin in 1995 was seen as an encouraging start to that process, laying the groundwork in the Berlin Mandate for what would become, two years later at COP3 in Japan, the Kyoto Protocol, the world’s first legally-binding climate treaty. In today’s terms...