Background . The Kyoto Protocol was negotiated in Kyoto, Japan, in December 1997. It was opened for signature on March 16, 1998, and closed a year later.

Read CNN’s Fast Facts on the Kyoto Protocol, an agreement reached in Japan in 1997, mandating that industrialized nations cut their greenhouse gas emissions.

The Kyoto Protocol is of course inadequate on its own as a defense against climate change. It applies to only a fraction of global carbon emissions, as the countries with the highest emissions ...

What is the Kyoto Protocol? The Kyoto Protocol is an international agreement setting targets for industrialised countries to cut their greenhouse gas emissions. These gases are considered at least ...

Troubled, flawed and shunned by the United States, the Kyoto Protocol remains to date the most comprehensive attempt by the international community to tackle, at a governmental level, one of the ...

The Kyoto Protocol went into force a full 15 years ago today—and yet, the climate crisis is more urgent than ever. On Sunday, 15 years will have passed since the Kyoto Protocol was ratified on ...

The Kyoto Protocol is an international agreement adopted in 1997 that aimed to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and the presence of greenhouse gases.

Japan’s announcement last week that it would not renew its commitment to the Kyoto Protocol does not necessarily kill the international climate negotiations, argues Andrew Light. A woman hands ...

While some have suggested that the Kyoto Protocol should continue to a second commitment period and be tied to a new agreement based on the Copenhagen Accord, Minamikawa made it clear in an ...

A new play from the writers of “The Jungle” dramatizes the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, a landmark climate agreement preceded by years of arguments over its wording. By Alex Marshall El cambio ...

Read CNN’s Fast Facts on the Kyoto Protocol, an agreement reached in Japan in 1997, mandating that industrialized nations cut their greenhouse gas emissions.

December 2012 – The Kyoto Protocol is extended to 2020 during a conference in Doha, Qatar. June 23, 2013 – Afghanistan adopts the Kyoto Protocol, becoming the 192nd participant.