The Kyoto Protocol

The Kyoto Protocol is an important international treaty, under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, with legally-binding targets to limit or reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The committments made by the countries, which signed the Protocol, add up to a total cut of at least 5% emission reduction from 1990 levels in the period 2008-2012. This treaty was an important step in combatting climate change, which is an emerging international concern.

Further information can be obtained in the following topics:

• The emergence of political concern for climate change
• The Climate Change Convention
• The Kyoto Protocol
• Key landmarks in the climate change process
  

Legal texts:

• UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), full text in various formats:     html,     pdf
• Kyoto Protocol (KP, full text in various formats):     html,     pdf

Other environmental treaties

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