Implementing the Kyoto Protocol. A Greenpeace Position Paper for the Fourth Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, November 2-13, 1998 - Buenos Aires. As negotiators gather in Buenos Aires for COP4 the big question is what should be done to build momentum in efforts to ratify and implement the Kyoto Protocol and the Climate Convention. The output of COP4 must be an action plan with concrete tasks and firm deadlines for their achievement and a clear allocation of responsibility to the Subsidiary Bodies for their execution.

Guide to the Kyoto Protocol. This guide to the Kyoto Protocol is meant to provide a basic background to the Protocol, what is in it and what is not, what it means and what Greenpeace's concerns are. For more detailed information and justification of the analysis and positions outlined in this guide the reader is referred to the Greenpeace Analysis of the Kyoto Protocol.

Making the Clean Development Mechanism Clean and Green. COP4 is to begin the process of developing the institutional framework for implementing the Clean Development Mechanism created under Article 12 of the Kyoto Protocol. Whilst the CDM only really comes into existence with the entry into force of the Kyoto Protocol, the COP's role is to begin preparing the requisite decision for the first COP/MOP of the Kyoto Protocol.

The Politics of Global Climate Change Human-induced climatic change, caused by steadily escalating emissions of the so-called greenhouse gases is now recognised by politicians and scientists alike as a serious global threat to the Earth.

Short Political Chronology on Climate Change: 1988-1998 - Traces the most significant dates in the ten year history of the negotiations on Climate Change from October 1988 with a voluntary agreement to cut CO2 emissions by 20% by the year 2005, to the UNFCCC Conference of the Parties at Buenos Aires, November 1998.

Greenpeace Analysis of the Kyoto Protocol. Greenpeace has prepared a detailed analysis of the Kyoto Protocol to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Convention, which was agreed at Kyoto on December 11, 1997. The Kyoto protocol nominally calls for industrialized countries, as a group, to reduce emissions by 5% by 2010. This is inadequate in itself, and because of loopholes built into the protocol, may not be met in practice. Greenpeace has calculated that the loopholes in the Protocol mean that it is likely to lead to an increase in emissions.

Ocean Disposal/Sequestration of Carbon Dioxide from Fossil Fuel Production and Use: An Overview of Rationale, Techniques and Implications (this document has a glitch on p37. The text breaks but none is lost)

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