World Environment Day marked

Today, June 5, is World Environment Day, the slogan of which this year is “Carbon Dioxide Emission—How to Change Habits.” World Environment Day was adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1972, and represents one of the main channels through which the UN stimulates discussion on the importance of increasing activities to protect the environment. World Environment Day marked The day promotes the view that the community is the basis for changes in behavior towards man’s immediate surroundings, and the headquarters of the UN Environment Programme are located in Nairobi. With the aim of reducing the emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, an international agreement on climate change has been signed – the Kyoto Protocol. The Protocol was formulated by the United Nations Convention for Climate Change and was signed in the Japanese city of Kyoto on December 11, 1997. At least 55 countries had to ratify the agreement for it to become valid, and the signatories had to make up at least 55 percent of the world’s polluters. This took place on February 16, 2005, when Russia ratified the protocol, though the U.S. still refuses to do so. The Kyoto Protocol envisages reductions in the emission of six greenhouse gases: carbon dioxide, methane, nitrogen dioxide, sulfur hexafluoride, hydrofluorocarbons, and perfluorocarbons. Serbian Environment Minister Sasa Dragin said that Serbia had ratified the Kyoto Protocol in 2007, and had adopted a decision last week to create a body for the Protocol’s third mechanism, pertaining to clean development. “This way, everyone who invests in clean technologies in Serbia and creates new jobs can expect so-called ‘carbon credits,’ which will be in the financial interests of those investing in Serbia in such a manner, and, at the same time, we’ll cease to be an ‘old technology graveyard,’” Dragin explained.

World Environment Day marked

The day promotes the view that the community is the basis for changes in behavior towards man’s immediate surroundings, and the headquarters of the UN Environment Programme are located in Nairobi.

With the aim of reducing the emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, an international agreement on climate change has been signed – the Kyoto Protocol.

The Protocol was formulated by the United Nations Convention for Climate Change and was signed in the Japanese city of Kyoto on December 11, 1997.

At least 55 countries had to ratify the agreement for it to become valid, and the signatories had to make up at least 55 percent of the world’s polluters. This took place on February 16, 2005, when Russia ratified the protocol, though the U.S. still refuses to do so.

The Kyoto Protocol envisages reductions in the emission of six greenhouse gases: carbon dioxide, methane, nitrogen dioxide, sulfur hexafluoride, hydrofluorocarbons, and perfluorocarbons.

Serbian Environment Minister Saša Dragin said that Serbia had ratified the Kyoto Protocol in 2007, and had adopted a decision last week to create a body for the Protocol’s third mechanism, pertaining to clean development.

“This way, everyone who invests in clean technologies in Serbia and creates new jobs can expect so-called ‘carbon credits,’ which will be in the financial interests of those investing in Serbia in such a manner, and, at the same time, we’ll cease to be an ‘old technology graveyard,’” Dragin explained.