Kazakhstan debate Kyoto involvement

Kazakhstan will debate whether to involve themselves in the Kyoto agreement, according to recent environmental news, with the Astana Kazakh Environment Ministry communicating with industrialists over the possibility of future inclusion.

Minister Nurlan Kapparov, who is a representative of oil and gas, energy and mining industries attended the meeting, adding weight to the possibility that future environmental legislation may be veered towards the agreements set in Kyoto.

The Kyoto Protocol is an international agreement linked to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The environmental legislation binds key targets for 27 industrialised countries and the EU community in a common effort to reduce greenhouse emissions. The protocol was adopted in 1997 and entered into force on February 16th 2005.

Kazakhstan officials and representatives gathered discussed beneficial and negative impacts of the revision of the earlier assumed obligations to reduce greenhouse emissions, as well as issues concerning prevention of environmental pollution in the production, introduction and maintenance of environmentally safe technical processes and facilities.

Posted by Joseph Hutton