Negocjowanie Protokołu z Kioto
Negotiations of the Kyoto Protocol

Summary/Abstract: The Kyoto Protocol, signed in 1997, is a “complement” of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change of 1992. The protocol, not the convention, imposed on a group of developed countries obligations on the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. However, the aim of the article is not an analysis of a fi nal effect of negotiations which are the regulations contained in the Kyoto Protocol, but the analysis of the negotiation process. The hypothesis stating that solving global environmental problems, including climate changes, is a dynamic and more and more complex process, or even “an endless chain of negotiations”, was put to verifi cation. Assuming that the Kyoto Protocol negotiations were a complex, dynamic process, to put them in order and at the same time capture the dynamic, three stages which contributed to the fi nal text of the document were identifi ed. The fi rst stage focused on defi ning the problem, and more precisely determining the scope of issues to be addressed in the protocol. During the second stage interests of states and their positions on the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions were defi ned. The third stage was a complex process of negotiating a political consensus confi rmed by the agreed text of the protocol.

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