Time To Move on A longer Term Perspective

It is difficult to admit that so much work has produced so little. One respected analyst has characterized the Kyoto Protocol as a pinnacle of both economic and environmental globalisation (Grubb, 1999). He regards as a hopeful achievement that, at the 

One of the premier American scientific institutions, the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, operated by Battelle for the U. S. 

Recent Battelle research further indicates that early offsets to emissions through soil carbon sequestration can buy additional time, at low cost, for future steep emissions reductions (Rosenberg et ciL, 1999). Although there are important questions to be answered, the potential is sufficiently significant so that the U.S. Department of Energy plans to establish a new Terrestrial Garbon Sequestration Center, to be jointly implemented by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (both administered by Battelle), in collaboration with several universities. 

Emissions in 2008-2012 (the Kyoto commitment period) are thus much less important than what happens in 2040, 2060, and 2080. The analyses show that the world does have time, provided that we use it well. Emissions can be allowed to drift upward for 

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