While a threat to the country's water resources, global warming could serve as an opportunity to enhance Jordan's economy, Minister of Environment Khalid Irani said on Saturday. At a seminar yesterday on climate change in Jordan, Irani noted that the Kingdom's greenhouse gas emissions are already within the legal limits set out by the 1997 Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, which the country is signatory to. "Climate change is a challenge that we can turn into an opportunity," he told The Jordanian Times on the sidelines of the seminar. The minister said earlier this year that Jordan's contribution to global greenhouse gases did not exceed 0.1 per cent. Any further drop in the Kingdom's greenhouse gas emissions would add to the country's credit, which could then be sold to countries that do not meet the limits set by the Kyoto Protocol, Irani explained. "Local measures of advanced industrialised countries are not usually enough to reduce their industrial emissions," Irani noted, adding that, according to the Kyoto Protocol, countries can pay Jordan for crediting them for the emission reduction.

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