Iranclimate

Comitee: Climate Topic: Kyoto Treaty Country: Iran Name: Ellen Greek Period:3

I. UN involvement In the year 1997, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change passed the Kyoto Protcol Treaty. this treay was idealically supposed to help guide countries into creating a cleaner and less polluted environment. It was also a main goal of the treaty to reverse the effects of global warming. Currently, the treaty is ratified by 141 nations, and it is not ratiffied by 35 other industrialized nations. Around the same time that the UN was forming the Kyoto Treaty, they were also in the process of creating UNFCCC; which was created with the intent of helping to eliminate some of the greenhouse gases in the air. The UN has also worked on creating " Carbon Taxes" or a type of way to monitor how much carbon each country pollutes the air with every year. in addition they have help many conferences and written many resolutions on climate change and helping to create a better environment and atmosphere.

II. Counrty Profile Iran is of the few countries who are still neglactant to sign the Kyoto Protocol Treaty. ONe of Irans biggest exports is Oil and Potroleum. Signing the Kyoto Protocol Treaty would force Iran to give up some of its exports of these substances and more and we feel that this would be very harmful to our economy. We do strongly encourage creating a cleaner atmosphere, but not at the expence of our econmic state and we feel that there are bigger situation on our hands that we must first deal with before troubling ourselves with a potential, futuristic problem.

III. Solutions We feel that the basic ideas of the Kyoto Protcol are for the better, but that it is unfair for all nations to be forced to abide by these guidelines. We propose that countries with a less stable economy should not be obligated to ratify the treaty, or follow its rules.

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