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СУРТАЕВА УСТНЫЙ ПОСЛЕДОВАТЕЛЬНЫЙ ПЕРЕВОД английский язык Учебно-методическое пособие для студентов с аудиодиском Санкт-Петербург 2009 УДК 81.111 (075.8) ББК 81.2 Англ — 923 С 90 Учебно-методическое пособие издается по решению Редакционноиздательского совета Санкт-Петербургского культурологического общества. <...> Background reading Read the text and give Russian equivalents to the underlined expressions The Kyoto Protocol The Kyoto Protocol is an international agreement, negotiated in December 1997, by which industrialized nations have committed to making substantial reductions in their emissions of greenhouse gases by 2012. <...> In 1979, the World Meteorological Office, the United Nations Environment Programme, and the International Council for Science held the first World Climate Conference in Geneva to address the question of the potential role of human sources of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in inducing global climate changes. <...> In 1988, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change (IPCC) established three scientific working groups to study the problem. <...> Based on their information, the IPCC has concluded that there is evidence that emissions from human sources are enhancing the greenhouse effect. - 5 - In response to the first report by the IPCC in 1990, the United Nations General Assembly launched a negotiating process to establish an agreement among industrialized nations to act to reduce their emissions of greenhouse gases. <...> In 1992, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change was adopted. <...> The nations who signed the convention agreed to develop national measures of greenhouse gas emissions, establish national programs to reduce emissions, and mitigate climate change. <...> The Convention also required that the developed countries and countries with economies in transition, reduce their greenhouse gas emissions to their 1990 levels by the end of 2000, although this was expressed as a voluntary rather than a binding commitment. <...> During the 1990s, concerns grew that industrialized nations would not reach the emissions targets agreed upon in the 1992 Climate Change Framework; therefore, members of the Kyoto Protocol began to develop a new agreement that included legally binding, rather than voluntary, commitments. <...> Other issues included planting forests and other greenhouse gas and carbon-removal methods rather than on reducing emissions in order to meet their targets <...>