4. CONCLUDING NOTES
Joy Hyvarinen, International Treaties Coordinator, January 1996.
At the time of writing, the increased scientific certainty about
human influence on the global climate is underscoring the urgency
of achieving rapid cuts in greenhouse gas emissions in industrialized
countries.
The Berlin Mandate negotiations are probably one of the most difficult
negotiating processes of our time, and one of the most important.
By the Second Conference of the Parties (COP 2), scheduled to
take place in Geneva in the summer of 1996, governments will need
to have made significant progress towards a protocol.
Adoption of the Toronto target, the common CAN goal for Berlin,
would be an appropriate first step, but it is clear that governments
must already consider further reductions in CO2 and other greenhouse
gases.
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