MOSCOW. (Viktor Danilov-Danilyan for RIA...

The Protocol is an unprecedented international instrument developing the ideas of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The convention aims to stabilize greenhouse gas concentration in the air at a level safe for the global climate-a goal approved by practically all countries. The document did not set any limitations or obligations despite the fact that the situation urgently demanded practical measures against adverse climate changes. Such measures were blueprinted in the Kyoto Protocol in 1997.

This trailblazing global project started heated debates, which have not finished to this day. The protocol is criticized from two opposite points. Some say there is no need for the protocol as climate changes, if there are any, are not caused by man. This argument is not valid since there is a 90% or even greater probability of negative climate change. The percentage grows as more information comes in.

Disastrous changes are expected. If we do not do anything

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