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What is the Kyoto Protocol?

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Kyto protocol is an international treaty formulated to control and reduce emissions which cause green house effect and global warming. This treaty was negotiated by developed industrialist countries in the city of Kyto in Japan in 1997. The aim is to reduce the rate of carbon emission by the year 2012. It is a protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, which is legally binding also.

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The Kyoto Protocol was an agreement negotiated by many countries in December 1997 and came into force with Russia's ratification on February 16, 2005. The reason for the lengthy timespan between the terms of agreement being settled upon and the protocol being engaged was due to terms of Kyoto requiring at least 55 parties to ratify the agreement and for the total of those parties emissions to be at least 55% of global production of greenhouse gases.

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