Saving Earth

DURING crunch talks in Copenhagen next week, Mexico will propose to slash its greenhouse gas emissions by 50 per cent by 2050 so long as it receives international aid, officials have said.
The second-largest economy in Latin America after Brazil also aims to reduce emissions from the heat-trapping gases by six to seven per cent [...]

Since 1961, humanity’s ecological footprint hastripled while 30 per cent of earth’s wildlife and natural ecosystems have been lost.Far from falling, annual global greenhouse emissions have risen 28 per cent since 1990 ?and are still rising.20 per cent of the world’s population, mainly in Europe and north America, consume 80 per centof its natural resources.
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It took all of one year for the member countries of the Framework Convention on Climate Change to decide that the Convention had to be augmented by an agreement with stricter demands for reducing greenhouse-gas emissions. The Convention took effect in 1994, and by 1995 governments had begun negotiations on a protocol — an international [...]