The results of the Convention in Copenhagen, many scanned with pessimism since there was a lack of commitment by the leaders of industrialized countries to reduce their emissions. While this is true, I think that the results of this Convention are a wake up call to the self-management of emissions, starting with the common person that turns off the light bulb when you don’t need it, passing by the entrepreneur who optimizes its energy resources, until the decisions and projects of national and transnational emission reduction. In this sense, the Kyoto Protocol generated many research global processes that have resulted in the development of cost-effective tools for reducing emissions. Although in its infancy such measures arose as tax standards, today already they have their own life and don’t need resources or external impulses to continue to evolve, given the dynamics that they have generated. This article aims to demonstrate the legacy left by the Kyoto Protocol and show the State of the art of the management of upgradable through the dissemination of tools and mechanisms that exist today, which remain in place and evolving with or without Copenhagen. The Kyoto Protocol management tools established flexible management tools to help the signatory countries to comply with their emissions standards: principals are: trade in emissions among industrialized countries in annex I (in this annex the signatory countries which is obligation to reduce its emissions are located.
Projects of mechanism of clean development (CDM): designed to run their projects in developing (non-Annex I) countries, annex I countries, in order to offset their CO2 emissions through savings that generate such projects. (AC) joint action projects: is similar to the CDM, with the caveat that the projects materialize among industrialized countries in annex I, in order to compensate and reduce their emissions. How you can demonstrate, although these mechanisms were designed for the countries in annex I to the Protocol, their implementation can be at any level.