MOSCOW, November 28 (RIA Novosti) - Major G8-based energy companies will discuss the implementation of the Kyoto Protocol at a UN climate change conference in the Canadian city of Montreal, Russian utility giant United Energy System said in a press release Monday.
UES experts, led by the managing director of the company's energy carbon fund, Andrei Gorkov, will be representing Russia at the conference, to run November 28 through December 9.
This will be the first UN climate conference since the Kyoto Protocol, an international agreement setting targets for industrialized countries to cut their greenhouse gas emissions, came into force earlier this year. The protocol was agreed upon in 1997, based on principles set out in a climate change convention signed in 1992.
