Traducción de «Protocolo de Kyoto » (Español → Inglés) :

17. Following up the Montreal Climate Action Plan under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, to prepare options for a post-2012 arrangement without delay, through engaging constructively in a broad dialogue on long-term cooperative action, and at the same time through Articles 3.9 and 9.2 of the Kyoto Protocol, including the consideration of further commitments for Parties included in Annex I to the Convention for the period beyond 2012 in accordance with Article 3.9 of the Kyoto Protocol and of the Community's future role on actions to be taken to achieve the 2°C objective, as recalled ...[+++] in the Conclusions on climate change adopted by the Council on 9 March 2006, as elements of the strategy due to be discussed during the second half of 2006, taking advantage of the review of the EU Emission Trading Scheme and the work under the European Climate Change Programme (ECCP II);

RECALLING the commitment in the "Bonn Political Declaration" on climate change funding for developing countries, REAFFIRMS its determination to deliver USD 369 million annually by 2005 and REITERATES that the relevant Member States will report on their respective contributions in their national communications as of 2006; EMPHASISES the need to start within the context of the UN climate change process the consideration of the post 2012 framework promptly and in this regard REITERATES that mitigation of climate change is a cornerstone of present and future climate change policies and that, since climate change is now inevitable, adaptati ...[+++]on to climate change is another key element of such policies; CONGRATULATES all Parties to the Convention on the progress made in 10 years implementation of the Convention; LOOKS FORWARD to engaging in panel discussions at the high level segment of the tenth session of the Conference of Parties in Buenos Aires in December 2004 to exchange views on accomplishments and future challenges".

REAFFIRMS the joint statement adopted at the end of the EU-Russia Summit of October 2001 in which both parties stressed their common belief that implementation of the Kyoto Protocol may help not only to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but also to increase European investment in the energy sector in Russia in order to improve its energy efficiency and economic performance, and therefore URGES Russia to ratify the Kyoto Protocol in due time before the World Conference on Climate Change in Moscow opens on 29 September;

(10) In deciding to fulfil their commitments jointly in accordance with article 4 of the Kyoto Protocol, the Community and the Member States are jointly responsible, under paragraph 6 of that article and in accordance with article 24(2) of the Protocol, for the fulfilment by the Community of its quantified emission reduction commitment under Article 3(1) of the Protocol.

(3) This process resulted in the adoption on 11 December 1997 of the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change ("the Protocol")(5).

The Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change ("the Protocol") signed on 29 April 1998 in New York is hereby approved on behalf of the European Community.