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environment
The Kyoto Protocol is a protocol
to the International Framework
Convention on Climate Change with the objective of reducing greenhouse
gases that cause climate change. It was agreed
on December 11, 1997. As of November 2007, 175
parties have ratified the protocol. Of these, 36
developed countries (plus the EU as a party in
its own right) are required to reduce greenhouse
gas emissions to the levels specified for each
of them in the treaty. One hundred and thirty-seven
(137) developing countries have ratified the protocol,
including Brazil, China and India, but have no
obligation beyond monitoring and reporting emissions.
The United States has not ratified the treaty.
The Kyoto Protocol now covers more than 175 countries
globally but only 60% of countries in terms of
global greenhouse gas emissions. As of December
2007, the US and Kazakhstan are the only signatory
nations not to have ratified the act.
Slightly fewer than half (17 of 38) of all industrialized
countries have already met, or are close to meeting,
their Kyoto targets. Countries with emissions significantly
above their Kyoto targets include the U.S., Canada,
Japan and New Zealand. Canada, Japan and New Zealand
are the only countries in this group to have ratified
the Kyoto Protocol yet
emissions in each of those three countries are
rising. Emissions in Canada have grown 30% above
the Kyoto target. New Zealand’s emissions
have risen 22% above Kyoto, and Japan’s are
20% above.
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