NGOs welcome Kyoto

A number of NGOs have welcomed the coming into legal force of the Kyoto Treaty.

Nature Trust Malta, Light Pollution Awareness Group, Din l-Art Helwa, Gaia Foundation, Friends of the Earth, Birdlife Malta, the Malta Organic Agriculture Movement and Malta Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energies Association said the fact that up to January 2005, 140 countries, including Malta, had ratified the Kyoto Protocol was witness to the belief in this unique exercise of compromise in environmental protection between several countries in different regions.

The Kyoto Protocol recognises that every country is responsible for climate change in varying degrees.

It was in fact Malta which originally proposed the climate to be considered as a common heritage of mankind.

The NGOs also called for an educational campaign to empower citizens to fulfill the commitments of the Kyoto Protocol.