This is an agreement made under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). It came into force in 2005. Signers are committed to reduce emission of carbon dioxide and five other greenhouse gases or engage in emissions trading if they...

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The huge international effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and counter global warming experienced a major setback at its conference in Bonn, Germany, in May 2001, when the United States pulled out of the conference and refused to sign the...

In the mid-1980s, a growing body of scientific evidence linked man-made greenhouse gas emissions to global warming. In 1990, the United Nations General Assembly issued a report that confirmed this link. The Rio Accord of 1992 resulted from this...

The Kyoto Protocol is a protocol to the international Framework Convention on Climate Change with the objective of reducing Greenhouse gases that cause climate change. It was agreed on 11 December 1997 at the 3rd Conference of the Parties to the treaty...

At the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in 1992 held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, a treaty entitled Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was presented for ratification. Signatory countries-called "Parties to the Convention" in diplomatic jargon-agreed (i) to take climate change...

Editor, New Era: I would like to respond to Tom Millington's letter, "Consider Bush Ethics" (New Era, Aug. 16). It's clear that Mr. Millington did little research before writing his piece. The Kyoto Protocol, after being submitted to the Senate for ratification...

The industrial world is hurling more carbon into the atmosphere than ever before, and governments have a narrow window of just a few years to reverse the trend and avert calamitous climate change, the U.N. climate secretariat said Tuesday.Though overall emissions are rising, U.N. projections...

Explanation of the Kyoto Protocol and what the US and other countries are trying to accomplish through it.

An amendment to the United Nations' Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Kyoto Protocol addresses global warming. Negotiated in 1997, the protocol calls for those countries who sign it agree to pay for and supply technology to developing or undeveloped countries for climate-related projects and investigations. Australia and the United States are not among the 141 countries who have signed the protocol, with the U.S. concerned about the impact the protocol would have on its economy.

Explains and argues against the Kyoto protocol. Describes problems with the environmental treaty.