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Fig. 1 Economic
development with
environmental devastation
Fig. 2
Increase of CO 2 level in the atmosphere in the last 10 years ( www.CO 2 now.org )
UNFCCC was a global treaty whose main
concern was to control the GHG emissions.
Actually, it was an agreement signed by 154 gov-
ernments in which critical issues on climate
change were raised and many countries agreed to
think on something to stabilise and reduce GHG
emissions in order to control climate change
issues.
Although 20 years ago from the UNCED sum-
mit conference was held on Stockholm (Sweden),
viz. United Nations Conference on Human
global environment, UNCED was more notable
and valuable in terms of environmental sustain-
ability. Nevertheless, Stockholm conference was
considered as an initiation of awareness of envi-
ronmental problems at political and public level.
The main objective of the Stockholm conference
was to provide awareness of environmental deg-
radation issues to the nations of the world.
In December 1997, an agreement was adopted
in Kyoto city, Japan, popularly known as the
Kyoto Protocol. It was a treaty that made some
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