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Policy. an international agreement signed in 1997 at a convention in Kyoto, Japan; it sets binding emissions reductions of greenhouse gases with an average 5.2% reduction below 1990 levels for industrial countries. See next page.

Kyoto Protocol

From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
International protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) that was agreed at Kyoto, Japan, in December 1997. It commits the 186 signatory countries to binding limits on carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping ‘greenhouse gases’, which many scientists believe contribute to global warming . For industrialized nations, Kyoto requires cuts in greenhouse gas emissions to an average of 5.2% below 1990 levels by 2012. Developing countries are also committed to emissions targets. The text of the UNFCCC was adopted in 1992 and promoted at the climate summit held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in June 1992. The convention entered into force in 1994, with 166 countries as signatories. The protocol was adopted at the December 1997 Kyoto conference on the UNFCCC. It will come into force on the 90th day after it is ratified by at least 55 parties to the convention which accounted in total for at least 55% of global carbon dioxide emissions in 1990. A controversial…
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From The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Houghton Mifflin
An agreement on global warming reached by the United Nations Conference on Climate Change in Kyoto, Japan, in 1997. The major industrial nations pledged to reduce their emissions of greenhouse gases between 2008 and 2012. ( See greenhouse effect .) Although the American delegation signed the…
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From Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy
1997–2012 Negotiated in 1997 the Kyoto Protocol set binding limits and targets on greenhouse gas emissions. The agreement was signed on December 11 by more than 150 countries but not by the United States. On November 1998 President Bill Clinton determined that the United States would sign the Kyoto…
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From Culture Wars in America: An Encyclopedia of Issues, Viewpoints, and Voices
The twentieth century's most prominent international agreement on climate change, the Kyoto Protocol, originally signed in December 1997, requires developed countries to reduce their collective emissions of greenhouse gases—carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and others—through cleaner fuels, …
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From The A to Z of Corporate Social Responsibility
→ Climate change www.unfccc.int The Kyoto Protocol is an international legally binding agreement between most of the world's countries created in 1997 under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to address the accumulation of greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere…
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The Kyoto Protocol is an international agreement linked to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The major feature of the Kyoto Protocol is that it sets binding targets for 37 industrialized countries and the European community for reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions .These…
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1997 The purpose of the Kyoto Treaty, also known as the Kyoto Protocol, was to reduce global warming by reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Countries that ratified the Kyoto Treaty agreed to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions to 5 percent below their 1990 level by the year 2012. The treaty was…
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From Dictionary of Energy
Kyoto Protocol, named after the city where it was agreed by negotiators in December 1997, is the daughter Treaty intended to implement the objectives and principles agreed in the 1992 UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The core idea is that stabilising the atmosphere (the UNFCCC’s…
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From The Macquarie Dictionary
an international agreement setting out national targets for the limitation of greenhouse gas emissions, formulated at a meeting in Kyoto, Japan, in 1997, pursuant to the objectives of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change of 1992; ratified by many countries including Japan, the European…
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From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
International protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) that was agreed at Kyoto, Japan, in December 1997. It commits the 186 signatory countries to binding limits on carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping ‘greenhouse gases’, which many scientists believe…
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The business community–represented here by The Business Roundtable, which includes the chief executives of more than two hundred of the largest corporations in the United States–objected to many of the details of the Kyoto Protocol and opposed its ratification. Following are the Roundtable's “Key…
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