Facing Down Armageddon: Our Environment at a Crossroads.

The article discusses global efforts to confront the challenge of climate change. A conference in Stockholm in 1972 acknowledged the problem, and in 1997 the multinational Kyoto Protocol established goals for reducing emissions. Since Kyoto rapid economic growth in India, China, and other developing nations has made action on climate change more urgent. China and the U.S. combined account for 40% of the world's greenhouse emissions. Among nations disagreement still exists as to what level emissions should be capped at.