The Kyoto Protocol was an amendment to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), an international treaty intended to bring countries together to reduce global warming and ...

Kyoto Protocol Takes Effect. November 5, 2004 / 1:55 AM EST / CBS/AP ... Environmental officials, gathered in the convention hall where the accord was adopted, ...

The Kyoto Protocol is an international agreement adopted in 1997 that aimed to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and the presence of greenhouse gases.

Today the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change comes into effect. Thirty-five industrialized countries have vowed to cut their greenhouse gas emissions to 5. ...

Read CNN’s Fast Facts on the Kyoto Protocol, an agreement reached in Japan in 1997, mandating that industrialized nations cut their greenhouse gas emissions.

The Kyoto Protocol is important both for what it covered and for what it left to further negotiation. A review of its contents, and how they came about, thus is in order.

First and second periods of the Kyoto Protocol. The U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change aims to promote emissions reductions that will hold global temperature increases to below 2 degrees ...

The Kyoto Protocol went into force a full 15 years ago today—and yet, ... The purpose of the protocol was to provide structure to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, ...

The Kyoto Protocol on global warming is an amendment to the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), more popularly known as the Rio Treaty. Whereas the Rio Treaty set ...

LONDON — The Kyoto Protocol is set to expire in just a few weeks, and its replacement will be debated during next week's climate talks in Qatar. However, few observers believe a new deal will be ...

Signed in 1992, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is the foundational treaty that has provided a basis for international climate negotiations since it was established ...

Read CNN’s Fast Facts on the Kyoto Protocol, an agreement reached in Japan in 1997, mandating that industrialized nations cut their greenhouse gas emissions.