The Kyoto Protocol, the first international treaty to set legally binding targets to cut greenhouse gas emissions, was adoped 25 years ago, on 11 December 1997, in Kyoto, Japan. The agreement, which ...

Here's a look at the Kyoto Protocol, an agreement reached in Kyoto, Japan, in 1997, mandating that industrialized nations cut their greenhouse gas emissions. Facts: 192 parties have ratified the ...

The leaders of the free world are preparing to meet next month for the G8 Summit in Scotland to address the most pressing economic and political issues facing the international community. As this year ...

Solving the problem of climate change requires a transformation in the thinking of developed countries, Tufts professors and outside experts said Monday. About 25 graduate students listened to ...

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 ...

As the Kyoto Protocol enters into force today, countries need to take another nine steps to make the international agreement the success that the world needs to avoid dangerous levels of climate ...

- It is a pact agreed by governments at a 1997 U.N. conference in Kyoto, Japan, to reduce greenhouse gases emitted by developed countries to at least 5 percent below 1990 levels by 2008-12. A total of ...