The problem of climate change has come back powerfully to the fore recently, George W. Bush has sought to improve his political image ending his presidency with a strong environmental footprint, even if Schwarzenegger idem in "small" for California alone, the German Greens have collected a landslide, we ... Oh well, never mind!
In all honesty, I always thought that the movement for climate change had been born recently, more or less ten years: I've actually found by turning on the web that the movement is much older. The first realization arrive " [...] in the 70s as a result of a progressive and more timely collection of scientific information that can read new knowledge with the evolution of the climate system and its interaction with ecological systems, social and economy. It is during these years that the problem begins to be perceived as a direct consequence of the increasing environmental pollution and degradation of primary environmental goods (water, air, soil) .
Although Italy has recently been shooting for high emissions harmful (well above the limits of the Kyoto Protocol), our country was the place where in 1972 was published the first report of the Club of Rome "The Limits of Growth"
Who would have thought it?
Later came the first World Assembly on the problem environment in Stockholm and then to Geneva in 1979.
With the meeting in Stockholm, "the UN has given Life Program of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the first international organization whose headquarters were established in a country of the South: Nairobi, Kenya .
In 1992, the corrected Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC ) signed at the conclusion of the World Conference in Rio de Janeiro on Environment and Development, but the most important step was marked with the promulgation of the famous Kyoto Protocol (1997) .
"This Protocol is signed in Kyoto in 1997, but unlike other international legal agreements in view of the fact that climate change is a global problem will come into force only when it was signed by a group of countries representing at least 55% of global emissions of greenhouse gases. The Protocol entered into force on February 16, 2005, after the decisive ratification by Russia.
The Protocol aims to reduce global emissions of greenhouse gases by 5.2% compared to 1990. [...] This should be achieved by 2012, and from here will be negotiated further reduction quotas. Reduction targets are differentiated according to the contribution of individual countries to climate change. In Europe the share is assigned to reduction of 8% compared to 1990, but distributed differently from country to country: in Italy is 6.5% for Germany and Denmark by 25%. "
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