UN: Industrialised countries' emissions on the rise

The five percent decrease in industrialised countries' CO2 emissions between 1990 and 2006 was mainly due to economic decline in Eastern and Central Europe in the 1990s, but the overall trend has been upward since 2000, according to UN data. "The picture is somewhat different for countries which have ratified the Kyoto Protocol," as their emissions fell by 17% in the same period, said Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Yvo de Boer, ...

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