Under the auspices of the United Nations, governments have been negotiating treaties to address climate change since 1989. Emission trading With the Kyoto Protocol, however, attention has shifted away from emission reduction in the richer polluting countries towards strategies for those countries to purchase low-cost reduction credits in other countries. Countries which use the global atmospheric commons in excess of the convergence level would have to pay a user penalty into a Global Atmospheric Commons Fund. The fund would assist impoverished countries and those with economies in transition to move towards a non-carbon economy focusing on renewable energy sources such as solar, biomass, wind and small scale hydroelectric. Full statement Daily coverage of COP 6 - International Climate Conference, The Hague, November 2000 WCC general secretary Konrad Raiser presented the WCC Climate Change Campaign petition to the UN during a COP meeting in Bonn, March 1997.
International airports are synonymous with access to and integration in the global market.
All cities in the global network of financial centres are linked to the rest of the world with at least one big airport. Mobility is an important feature of the ever-increasing speed of economic globalization. Global trade, and global air-traffic grow in parallel. But there is another side of the coin. If the trend continues, air-traffic will soon become the biggest contributor to greenhouse gas emissions and global warming.