Abstract
In the year 2000, the Hague Climate Conference took place from the November 13 to November 25 of the same year. It was eight years after the Rio Earth Summit, where the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), or Conference of Parties, opened the way to a global co-operation over tackling climate change by adopting the Agenda 21 and emphasized the notion of sustainable development. The Hague Climate Conference (COP-6) was the sixth conference of this kind, in the heart of the Kyoto Protocol process, aiming at reducing or controlling carbon gas emissions and implementing flexible mechanisms. In this context, the conference prompted high expectations. Its goal was to finalize the ambitious work program already engaged in the Buenos Aires and Bonn conferences in 1998 and 1999. However, the Hague Climate Conference was regarded as a failure. This article exposes many arguments explaining why the conference was doomed.
