On December 11th 1997, in Kyoto, a good number of the developed countries took the compromise of reducing the greenhouse gas emissions to the atmosphere, in order to fight against the effects of the climate change.

The agreed reduction was an average of 5,2 per 100 between 2008 and 2012, with the basis of the emissions of 1990. This agreement, known world around as the Kyoto Protocol, entered into force in February 16th 2005 for those 141 that did ratify it. Nevertheless, in an effort to have an additional contribution to the reduction of the emission of greenhouse gas emissions, the European Union decided to bring forward the agreement for its Member States to the period 2005-2008.

Once that more than one and a half year has already passed since this obligation entered into force for the European countries, it’s time to analyze the present situation and to try to go ahead what the future may bring us, specially for the first phase of the Kyoto Protocol at a world level, 2008-2012.

¿What is the next level to the European Union Member countries? Is not a same 15 European Union member countries against 27 European Union member countries, and if necessary to build the best environment and energy policy thinking in the European Union but for each one, too.

|Manuel Torres Laveaga

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