What countries, besides the US, did not sign Kyoto Agreement ?

Question

What about China?

Answer 1

Austrialia - major opposition including USA.

Answer 2

The US and Australia have signed but not ratified it. China signed and ratified it. A number of small countries have not signed at all.
Note that since China is not an Annex 1 country, the Kyoto Agreement does not place any limit on their CO2 emissions.

Answer 3

As of April 2006, a total of 163 countries have ratified the agreement (representing over 61.6% of emissions from Annex I countries) UNFCCC.int Duwe, Matthias. Notable exceptions include the United States and Australia. Other countries, like India and China, which have ratified the protocol, are not required to reduce carbon emissions under the present agreement.

According to terms of the protocol, it enters into force "on the ninetieth day after the date on which not less than 55 Parties to the Convention, incorporating Parties included in Annex I which accounted in total for at least 55% of the total carbon dioxide emissions for 1990 of the Parties included in Annex I, have deposited their instruments of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession." Of the two conditions, the "55 parties" clause was reached on May 23, 2002 when Iceland ratified. The ratification by Russia on 18 November 2004 satisfied the "55%" clause and brought the treaty into force, effective February 16, 2005.

Go to this link to find the sattus of the ratification to April 2006
http://unfccc.int/files/essential_background/kyoto_protocol/application/pdf/kpstats.pdf

Answer 4

The only other country besides the US which declined the Kyoto Protocol was Australia. China did sign it and there are a few others that have no position on it. This basically means they haven't approved or declined the protocol.

Answer 5

Canada’s The Globe and Mail reports that, according to private instructions to Canadian negotiators in Bonn, Germany, Canada will not support attempts by other countries to set deeper emission-reduction targets for the Kyoto Protocol’s second phase.

A two week-long set of meetings of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change opened in Bonn on 15 May to plot the second phase of the Kyoto Protocol, with Canada as the chair.

The instructions obtained by The Globe and Mail also show that Canada wants the climate-change accord phased out in favor of a separate, voluntary deal. (Separately, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Canada was interested in exploring the possibility of joining the US-led voluntary Asia-Pacific Partnership on climate change.) Canada has already publicly stated that it needs more lenient greenhouse gas reduction targets for itself than originally specified under the Kyoto Protocol.

“Canada will not support agreement on language in the work program that commits developed countries to more stringent targets in the future,” states a line contained in 22 pages of instructions.

The paper also shows that Canada is threatening to pull out of the UN climate-change process unless it includes the United States and all other major polluters.

The instructions to Canadian negotiators reveal Ottawa is pushing for the Kyoto Protocol to disappear.

“Canada does not support a continuation of the status quo beyond 2012, and has no preconceived view on how a new commitment period might be structured.”

Answer 6

US Beats Europe Over CO2 Control
By Fraser Nelson - Political Editor

THE United States has frozen its carbon dioxide emissions at a time when signatories of the Kyoto Protocol are conceding that they cannot meet their own targets, according to official figures released last week.

While the American economy grew by 3.5% last year, more than twice the European average, its fossil fuel emissions were up by only 0.1% with no growth in road pollution and a drop in aircraft emissions.

Its progress came as several members of the European Union (EU) missed the deadline to submit new targets to reduce their carbon footprint with Germany demanding an opt-out for its power stations and Spain and Portugal preparing to abandon their target.

The US Energy Department said last week that rising fuel prices had a profound effect on its economy, encouraging the shift to more efficient technology and seeing a decline in carbon usage, which many European countries would find enviable.

The oil price rises hit the US proportionately harder as its petrol is taxed at a lower rate. Pump prices in the United States jumped 19% to 61cents (35.2p) a litre while UK prices rose by just 3.6% to 89.4p a litre with similar rises across Europe.

Road pollution increases were halted across the US and aircraft CO2 emissions declined. American industry reduced its carbon emissions overall by 3.3% a trend reflecting the economic shift from manufacturing

Since 1997, when the Kyoto Protocol was first signed, the US has now made more progress in reducing its per capita fossil fuel emissions than the UK, France, Spain, Finland, Sweden and Japan even before its economic growth is considered.

The US is frequently criticised for having the highest CO2 emissions in the world 19.5 tons per person. This is more than twice the level of Britain, at 9.5 tons a head, which itself is sharply ahead of nuclear-driven France at 6.8 tons a head.

The Bush administration has said this is because the US generates more wealth than any country in the world, and it has instead said carbon emissions should be judged as a function of economic wealth created, not per capita.

Although President George Bush pulled out of the Kyoto Protocol in 2001, after a bipartisan vote in Congress, America has made substantially more progress than its European counterparts, which are still signed up to reach its targets.

The EU has moved to a new flagship environment policy called the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), and all 25 member states were due by the end of last week to have submitted their carbon reduction targets for the period from 2008 to 2012.

Those countries that went public with their plans had low ambitions. The German government said last week it would be able to reduce its carbon emissions by only 1% by 2012 and has said this will not apply to its new power plants.

David Miliband, UK Environment Secretary, acknowledged last week that the government is off track in meeting its own target of reducing emissions by 20% under the 1990 baseline set by Kyoto. It has met the 10% target.

Spanish carbon emissions were 48% above the 1990 base in 2004, more then treble the 15% limit of its Kyoto target. Portugal, Greece and Ireland also Kyoto signatories all have emissions at least 20% higher

Of the 30 industrialised countries which signed Kyoto, 17 were exceeding their targets at the time the last count was taken, in 2004. Japan pledged itself to a 6% drop in its 1990 emissions levels, yet has so far experienced a 7% rise.

The main US increase was registered from air conditioning, reflecting an economic boom in Americas hotter states. Arizonas economy grew by an extraordinary 8.7% over the year and Nevadas by 8.2% both on a par with the growth rates in India.

Answer 7

Austrialia. But just to let you know alot of major cities across the US decided that if the US as a whole wouldn't sign, they individually would sign.

Answer 8

The shorter list is of those countries that did sign.

If you want to be provocative, you should start by being smarter.

Answer 9

canada didnt...they were going to and then we got a conservative leader ...harper...n yea now we are a sucky nation b/c conservatives dont wanna save the environment

Answer 10

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