Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Perspectives on the Top 20 Emitters and Developed Versus Developing Nations

CRS

This 22-page updated US report examines two issues.The first is the separate treatment of developed and developing nations under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Kyoto Protocol.The second issue is the continuing difficulty of the current approach designed to address climate change through limiting greenhouse gas emissions to a specified percentage of baseline emissions (typically 1990).

Larry Parker, John Blodgett

Climate Change & Environment Posted: 2008-12-15