Kyoto Protocol

December 11, 1997 · Kyoto

International treaty under the UN climate convention in which industrialised countries agreed to binding cuts in greenhouse gas emissions. It came into force in 2005; the United States never ratified it.

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Followed from
Earth Summit June 3–14, 1992
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change June 4, 1992

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