Kyoto targets impossible
environmental experts in industrialised nations feel that it will be impossible to achieve an international target to cut greenhouse gas emissions to levels recorded in the early 1990s by 2008-12, according to a worldwide survey released in Tokyo recently.
A total of 597 people in 82 countries working for their respective governments, non-governmental organisations, universities and business corporations responded to the Eighth Annual Survey on Environmental Problems and the Survival of Humankind. Asked whether they thought the greenhouse gas emissions reduction target, set during the United Nations Conference on Climate Change in Kyoto in December 1997, could be achieved if COP-based progress continued at its current pace, 63 per cent respondents answered in the negative.