Event

Kyoto Protocol

11 Dec 1997 · 35.01° N, 135.77° E

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When
11 Dec 1997
Kind
Event
Coordinates
35.01° N, 135.77° E

Placed at the town its text puts it in, Kyoto.

Summary

Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference of the Parties held in Kyoto. As a result of the meeting, the Kyoto Protocol to impose greenhouse gas emission reduction targets was adopted.

Kyoto Protocol

1997 international treaty to reduce greenhouse gas emissions

The Kyoto Protocol (Japanese: 京都議定書, Hepburn: Kyōto Giteisho) was an international treaty which extended the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) that commits state parties to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, based on the scientific consensus that global warming is occurring and that human-made CO2 emissions are driving it.

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