english transaltion of the feature on Cop9
traduzione inglese feature Cop9
A hot summit
In Italy carbon dioxide emissions are among the principal gases which cause greenhouse effects and global heating. Their level had to sink at the values of 1990. And, instead, they increased till 7,3%. the Cop 9 (Conference Of Parties), worldwide summit on climate and climatic changes is going to be held just in Italy, in Milan, 1-12 Dec. It should definitively let the Kyoto protocol be applied. This is an agreement, signed 1997, which was supposed to let the governments of the whole world apply the convention on climatic changes (1992) and stop the production of gases which enlarge the greenhouse effect, till the at the levels got thirteen years ago. 84 countries signed, 62 ratified this agreement but everything is at standstill: the ones who pollute rule. The USA, which "produce" 5 thousand tons of Co2 per year (while India "produces" "just" one thousand), don't sign the agreement. It's not an environmental matter. The debate will be first of all about the application of flexible rules for the reduction and the trade of the emissions, about the sanctions to apply, about the usefulness of the basins for carbon absorption, which could imply the use of genetically modified trees. They will also talk about the role of the Worldwide Bank in the financial protocol management. Everything will be useless if Russia decides to accept the American pressures and doesn't sign, (supported by China and India) the Milan Mandate, which is suppsosed to be ratified in these days. The management of oil, the most precious resource for the free-trade economy, is at stake and here's where, more than elsewhere, national and international polical balances are determined. Demonstrations are planned, to answer to the ones who only try to solve economical problems and to assert that the atmosphere is a common weal of the people the earth and that oil and free trade economy are destroying it. To remember that wee ned to break the dependence on fossil fuels, the control of which was the main reason of the last wars which struck the planet.
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