OSLO (Reuters) – Industrial nations taking part in the U.N.’s Kyoto Protocol for fighting climate change can exceed goals for cuts in greenhouse gas emissions if new policies work as planned, the U.N. Climate Secretariat said on Tuesday.
But it cautioned that emissions had risen since 2000 in many nations — especially in former Soviet bloc countries where economies were picking up after the collapse of smokestack industries in the early 1990s.
The Secretariat projected that almost 40 nations taking part in Kyoto could cut emissions by 11 percent below 1990 levels in 2008-12, exceeding Kyoto’s goal of cuts of at least five percent.
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Noelle d'Estries, an early GO employee who took on the varied roles of Community Manager, green celebrity blogger, and more. She currently runs worstcookever.com GO entered Noelle's life in February 2007 while she was burning tires in her backyard. A phone call from the green gods at GO, burnt out the fires. Now, Noelle happily wears her GO sweatshirt while eating organic veggies and asking for paper, not plastic. A regular at the local farmer's market, Noelle shuns raking leaves and lawn maintenance, while making gourmet foods constantly. When not staring at her computer screen, she spends time with her equally attractive dog, Tessa, cat, Tim and lover Paul. She currently holds all three point records at RIT and could eat avocados and drink wine for the rest of her life.
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