Accounting Quote by Henry Sylvester Jacoby

With each passing year the difficulty of meeting any fixed quantitative target increases progressively. Moreover, plausible estimates of when the Protocol would go into…

— Henry Sylvester Jacoby

It will be nearly impossible to slow warming appreciably without condemning much of the world to poverty unless energy sources that emit little or…

— Henry Sylvester Jacoby

The different policies reduce damages by only a modest amount. Indeed, one of the surprises is how little the policies affect the damages from…

— Henry Sylvester Jacoby

The impact of the Kyoto Protocol on global temperature is quite modest, especially for the first century. The reduction in global mean temperature in…

— Henry Sylvester Jacoby

If the relatively rich participating countries want to stabilize atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases, they will have to pay at least some poor countries…

— Henry Sylvester Jacoby

It is becoming increasingly clear that the targets in the Kyoto Protocol cannot and will not be met on the established timetable in the…

— Eileen Claussen

The total efforts of the last 20 years of climate policy has likely reduced global emissions by less than 1 percent, or about 250…

— Bjorn Lomborg

Globally, emissions may have to be reduced, the scientists are telling us, by as much as 60% or 70%, with developed countries likely to…

— Michael Meacher

Ideology on which the Kyoto Protocol is based, is a new form of totalitarian ideology, along with Marxism, Communism and socialism.

— Andrey Illarionov

Three scenarios for post-Kyoto emissions reductions indicate that ... the long-term consequences are small... The influence of the Protocol would, furthermore, be undetectable for…

— Tom Wigley

The seas need their own Kyoto Protocol.

— Enric Sala

The challenge now is to renovate the baroque structure that the Kyoto Plan has become—or else scrap it and get ready to start all…

— Christopher Flavin