Kyoto and the challenge of real-time policy: the nuanced reality behind sustainability

Abstract

Optimists have called the Kyoto Protocol a historica! document while skeptics have called it inevitability. But in the end any way you look at this document it means an added dimension to politica! and commercial dynamics. One however which has important implications if wrongly understood or interpreted. This is truly one of the difficult si des to K yoto and policies on sustainability, the questions are diverse and its reality all hut simp Ie, hut wrong policy could maybe 'not' be overturned.