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Kyoto Protocol

Adopted at the Third Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention on Climate Change held in Kyoto, Japan, in December 1997, the Kyoto Protocol commits industrialized country signatories to reduce their greenhouse gas (or “carbon”) emissions by an average of 5.2% compared with 1990 emissions, in the period 2008-2012.