Can
Kyoto Protocol Be Doha Protocol or Doha Accord?
There’s no gainsaying the fact that some developed countries
are plotting the death of the Kyoto Protocol; to say the obvious, the United
Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark also known as the 15th
Session of the Conference of Parties (COP15), would have indeed laid a
foundation of a new treaty to either replace the Kyoto Protocol or become a
Post-Kyoto agreement; Perhaps the ‘Copenhagen Accord’ which was the outcome of
COP15 would have completely become a ‘sealed deal’ as it was originally
proposed, but unfortunately, the truth came as no surprise as Article 3.9 of
the Kyoto Protocol (with emphasis added) which provides that: “Commitments for
subsequent periods for Parties included to Annex 1 shall be established in
amendments to Annex B to the Protocol, which shall be adopted in accordance
with the provisions of Article 21, paragraph 7” was used as a political tool in
the hands of some ‘senior’ Annex 1 Part(ies).
