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Growing international awareness:<br />

Advances and impasses<br />

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change<br />

United Nations<br />

Framework<br />

Convention on<br />

Climate Change<br />

1992 1997 2003 2005 2008 2013 2020<br />

Signature of the<br />

Kyoto Protocol<br />

Press Conference – 15 November 2011, Paris<br />

EU directive creating<br />

the European Union<br />

Emission Trading<br />

System (EU ETS*)<br />

*EU ETS: Europe Union Emission Trading System<br />

Source: CITEPA<br />

Phase I of the EU<br />

ETS:<br />

01/01/2005 to<br />

31/12/2007<br />

First commitment period of<br />

the Kyoto Protocol<br />

(01/01/2008 to 31/12/2012):<br />

5.2% cut in greenhouse gas<br />

emissions from 1990 levels<br />

Phase II of the EU ETS:<br />

1/01/2008 to 31/12/2012<br />

The EU commits to an<br />

8% reduction in its<br />

carbon emissions<br />

Phase III of the EU ETS:<br />

01/01/2013 au 31/12/2020<br />

The ‘3x20’:<br />

> 20% cut in greenhouse gases<br />

> 20% cut in energy consumption<br />

> 20% of energy from renewable<br />

sources<br />

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