- It is a pact agreed by governments at a 1997 U.N. conference in Kyoto, Japan, to reduce greenhouse gases emitted by developed countries to at least 5 percent below 1990 levels by 2008-12. A total of ...

Here's a look at the Kyoto Protocol, an agreement reached in Kyoto, Japan, in 1997, mandating that industrialized nations cut their greenhouse gas emissions. Facts: 192 parties have ratified the ...

Solving the problem of climate change requires a transformation in the thinking of developed countries, Tufts professors and outside experts said Monday. About 25 graduate students listened to ...

Ten years after the Kyoto Protocol first was introduced, the question remains: What can be done about global warming? For the 175 countries that have ratified it so far, the treaty goes into effect ...

The leaders of the free world are preparing to meet next month for the G8 Summit in Scotland to address the most pressing economic and political issues facing the international community. As this year ...

(For related story, please click on [nBKK145311]) March 30 (Reuters) - Delegates from up to 190 nations will meet in Bangkok from March 31-April 4 to start work on a new U.N. pact to fight climate ...

It may not be a household word, but by now the Kyoto Protocol has become a well-known political slogan. President George W. Bush has called it “fundamentally flawed,” while some environmentalists in ...

The Kyoto Protocol on global warming is an amendment to the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), more popularly known as the Rio Treaty. Whereas the Rio Treaty set ...

At Lincoln Center Theater, a new play from the makers of “The Jungle” tries to dramatize the negotiations that led to the Kyoto Protocol. By Laura Collins-Hughes A new play from the writers of “The ...