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 ...

The Kyoto Protocol, the first international treaty to set legally binding targets to cut greenhouse gas emissions, was adoped 25 years ago, on 11 December 1997, in Kyoto, Japan. The agreement, which ...

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 ...

CANCUN, Mexico, December 1, 2010 (ENS) – Japan rocked the UN climate talks in Cancun Monday with the declaration that the Japanese government would not agree to extend the Kyoto Protocol beyond 2012.

For the next two weeks, diplomats will be meeting in Bali, Indonesia to try to decide what the next steps in tacking climate change should look like. With 192 nations taking part in the United Nations ...

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 ...