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Kyoto Protocol: A Global Environmental Initiative

Learn about the Kyoto Protocol, an international treaty to combat climate change by stabilizing greenhouse gas concentrations. Discover the history, goals, and impact of this crucial agreement.

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Kyoto Protocol: A Global Environmental Initiative

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  1. December 1997 Encyclopaedia Britannica / Toru Yamanaka—AFP/Getty Images Opening session of the United Nations Kyoto Summit which led to the first international agreement on climate change.

  2. Delegate at Copenhagen Climate Conference. Nations failed to come to a workable agreement.

  3. The Kyoto Protocol is a United Nations initiative aimed at fighting global warming. It is an international environmentaltreaty with the goal of achieving the "stabilisation of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system." • The Protocol was initially adopted on 11 December 1997 in Kyoto, Japan, and entered into force on 16 February 2005. As of September 2011, 191 states have signed and ratified the protocol.[6] The only remaining signatory not to have ratified the protocol is the United States. Other United Nations member states which did not ratify the protocol are Afghanistan, Andorra and South Sudan. In December 2011, Canada renounced the Protocol. • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyoto_Protocol

  4. Honolulu Meeting June 2011 Pacific Nations Conference Hosted by USA http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APEC_United_States_2011

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