Future climate policies: A European experience

Climate change is a global challenge. The Kyoto Protocol was the first document with binding reduction targets until 2012 but the future of international climate policies is highly disputed. Today, after the latest conferences in Bali and Poznan, no results have been found and negotiations will continue up to the conference in Copenhagen in December 2009. Future principles of international climate policies, instruments and reduction targets - all the components of a new climate protection treaty - are still disputed. Members of the European Union (EU) urge other nations to continue with the logic of the Kyoto Protocol and further develop its emissions caps and flexible mechanisms.