kyoto protocol, definition of

International treaty whose aim is to stem global warming, signed in 1997 following negotiations within the U.N.

In December 1997, around 180 nations signed a treaty in Japan, under which 38 industrialized countries committed themselves to reducing emissions of the six greenhouse gases blamed for global warming. The Kyoto Protocol stipulates that, between 2008 and 2012, these emissions should be decreased to an average level 5.2% lower than that of 1990.

• Climate Change Weekly #465: [Fill in the Blank Climate Crisis] Season Is Here
  Climate realists should gird their loins in preparation for the pending onslaught of stories in the mainstream media proclaiming this or that seasonal weather event is being enhanced by anthropogenic climate change to some degree somehow or other.
• Washington Post: “Less warming, but worse impacts on the planet”
  “People are already dying of climate change right now” - but "accelerating solar and wind" will save us from "the most severe climate change scenarios".
• “THIS AGREEMENT WILL BE GOOD FOR ENRON STOCK!!” (Enron’s Kyoto memo turns 25)
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  Credulous Western environmentalists and government officials expect China to play a lead role in “combating” climate change, especially since President Trump withdrew the US from the Paris Agreement...
• Why Prolong the Pain? Countries Must End Harmful Allegiance to Paris Agreement
  The United Nations’ (UN) collective decision, under the Framework Convention on Climate Change, to wage war on fossil fuels required a draconian energy policy...
• How vested interests tried to turn the world against climate science
  For decades fossil fuel majors tried to fight the consensus – just as big tobacco once disputed that smoking kills
• Industry backs NSW call for Morrison government to require emissions cut
  Australian Industry Group says an emissions reduction obligation in national policy is ‘vastly superior’ to separate state schemes
• Australia to claim success on climate target, with help of accounting rules
  Analysis indicates Australia’s ability to show it has met the requirements for its 2020 emissions target will make the challenges more difficult in the years ahead