What is Kyoto Treaty?

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What is Kyoto Treaty?

Answer 1

the kyoto agreement is where aload of countrys signed a document saying that they would try to cut their carbon, and harmful emissions by something like 20%.

not every country joined, but more and morte are joining it.

search it on google

and then go to the one on wikipedia

Answer 2

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Kyoto Protocol

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Kyoto Protocol

The Kyoto Protocol is an amendment to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

Signed

- location December 11, 1997

Kyoto, Japan

Effective

- condition February 16, 2005

55 parties and at least 55% CO2 1990 emissions by UNFCCC Annex I parties.

Signatories 174 countries and other governmental entities (as of November 2007)

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 when they met in Kyoto, and entered into force on 16 February 2005. As of November 2007, 175 parties have ratified the protocol. Of these, 36 developed countries (plus the EU as a party in its own right) are required to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to the levels specified for each of them in the treaty (representing over 61.6% of emissions from Annex I countries), [1][2] with three more countries intending to participate.[3] One hundred and thirty-seven (137) developing countries have ratified the protocol, including Brazil, China and India, but have no obligation beyond monitoring and reporting emissions. The United States has not ratified the treaty. Among various experts, scientists and critics there is some debate about the usefulness of the protocol, and there have been cost-benefit studies performed on its usefulness.

Answer 3

The Kyoto Treaty commits industrialised nations to reducing emissions of greenhouse gases, principally Carbon Dioxide, by around 5.2% below their 1990 levels over the next decade.

Drawn up in Kyoto, Japan, in 1997, the agreement needs to be ratified by countries who were responsible for at least 55% of the world's carbon emissions in 1990 to come into force.

Answer 4

an international treaty that deals with greenhouse gas emissions and trying to reduce them.

http://unfccc.int/kyoto_protocol/items/2...

http://environment.about.com/od/kyotopro...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/art...