Montreal 2005: What Happened and What It Means
By ClimateBiz Staff
Created 2006-03-13 00:00
The 2005 United Nations climate change conference in Montreal signaled both the start of full legal implementation of the Kyoto Protocol and the launch of negotiations on industrialized country commitments post-2012, when the current protocol expires. This paper, released in February 2006 by the nonprofit Oxford Institute for Energy, summarizes the outcomes of the meeting and discusses likely implications.
