Global Climate Change: The Kyoto Protocol
Description:
Negotiations on the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was completed on December 11, 1997,
committing the industrialized nations to specified, legally binding reductions in
emissions of six “greenhouse gases.” The Protocol entered into force on February
16, 2005, and its emissions reduction requirements are binding on the 35
industrialized countries that have ratified it; the United States disengaged from the
Protocol in 2001 and has not ratifie…
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Date:
July 21, 2005
Creator:
Fletcher, Susan R.
Partner:
UNT Libraries Government Documents Department