Tier 2: The extent to which forest management activities can be accounted for to help
meet emission targets beyond 9 megatons of carbon per year is subject to an individual cap for each Party, specified in an appendix to the decision on LULUCF.
In an announcement that originated in a ministerial level
meeting in Tokyo, Japanese negotiators reiterated a position they have been making for a year now: they will not sign onto a second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol, setting new and more ambitious
targets for binding
emission reductions among the parties of that treaty
beyond 2012, unless the biggest carbon polluters do as well.