Was the 1997 Kyoto protocol a success? That depends on how you interpret the numbers. Under the treaty, 38 developed countries signed up to reduce their mean annual greenhouse gas emissions from 2008 ...

In the Kyoto Protocol’s accounting of greenhouse gases, the former Eastern bloc is a smashing success. Russia: Down 29% in carbon dioxide emissions since 1990.

Troubled, flawed and shunned by the United States, the Kyoto Protocol remains to date the most comprehensive attempt by the international community to tackle, at a governmental level, one of the ...

This is due primarily to the fact that the world’s second-largest emitter and largest per-capita emitter, the United States, never ratified the Kyoto Protocol—the very idea of the protocol was ...

Ontario Premier Ernie Eves says he thinks Ottawa, Alberta and Ontario should be able to work out a way to make peace on the Kyoto Protocol without unduly damaging the economy of any single province.

India said the success of global climate talks in Mexico would be “remote” unless countries agree to extend the Kyoto Protocol beyond 2012. “If the second commitment period of the Kyoto ...

Four years of tough negotiations on an international legal framework to implement the 1997 Kyoto Protocol on Climate Change finally concluded at the weekend in the Moroccan city of Marrakech. The ...