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 ...

Russia’s upper house of parliament voted 139-1, with one abstention, on October 26 to ratify the Kyoto Protocol. The lower house, the State Duma, had approved the measure four days earlier by a 334-73 ...

NORFOLK, Va. — Twenty-five years ago, the front page of a newspaper in Kyoto, Japan read “U.S. ready to compromise.” It was one of the biggest moments in the global fight against climate change. Back ...

Back in 1997, President Bill Clinton signed on to the goals and processes of the Kyoto Protocol, which commits signatory countries to reduce greenhouse gases in amounts sufficient to prevent dangerous ...

The Kyoto Protocol is a protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC or FCCC), an international environmental treaty with the goal of achieving "stabilization of ...

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. 192 parties have ratified the protocol ...

The Kyoto Protocol, the 1997 international treaty on global warming that the United States has drawn criticism for declining to ratify, would not only be “outrageously costly” to carry out, it would ...

The parties that signed the Kyoto treaty on global warming in 1997 are meeting in Montreal, Canada. Signatories are tackling the issue of how to meet the agreed cap on emissions. In the meantime, ...

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 ...