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The Kyoto Protocol: A Blueprint for Sustainable Development

Tufts University hosted a conference with several cosponsors titled “Where Do We Go From Kyoto?” to explore the implications and opportunities of the Kyoto Protocol of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The conference sponsors recognized the importance of the Kyoto Protocol, not only as an instrument to further the objective of the UNFCCC but as an instrument of farreaching consequences that has the potential to touch and influence every sector of the economy around the entire world. At the end of the deliberations, it was clear that successful implementation requires recasting the protocol as a new basis for attaining sustainable development. The following recommendations are based on discussions at the conference but are solely the responsibility of the authors. It was clear right from the time negotiations began on the adoption of the UNFCCC that climate change is more than just an environmental issue. Economic, societal, and development issues also lie at the crux of this problem. Although the 1992 Rio Summit, in which the UNFCCC was negotiated, was officially called the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, the UNFCCC has not been viewed as a vehicle for sustainable development. Recasting the Kyoto Protocol in its original context of sustainable development will increase the chances of success in meeting the environment and development objectives of constituencies in industrialized and developing countries. Because of the current heavy dependence of both industrialized and developing economies on fossil fuels, the UNFCCC has come to be seen as a restriction on economic development. This, in turn, has created a division between developing countries that argue that they need to be allowed to develop economically first before being asked to curtail their greenhouse gas