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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