Nov 22 (Reuters) - Nearly 200 countries will meet in Doha, Qatar, next week to work for a new climate deal to curb the greenhouse gas emissions that scientists say are warming the planet, raising sea ...

It has been a long wait since the Kyoto protocol was signed in the early hours of 11 December 1997. Next year, if Russia sticks to the commitment it made last week, the treaty will at last come into ...

The Kyoto Protocol went into force a full 15 years ago today—and yet, the climate crisis is more urgent than ever. On Sunday, 15 years will have passed since the Kyoto Protocol was ratified on ...

CANCUN, Mexico — The U.N. climate summit here has been consumed this past week over Japan’s announcement at one of the opening plenary sessions that they would not renew their emission reduction ...

Japan’s announcement last week that it would not renew its commitment to the Kyoto Protocol does not necessarily kill the international climate negotiations, argues Andrew Light. A woman hands out ...

Leaders from the Group of Eight rich nations discuss at a summit this week a global deal to combat climate change, which would succeed the Kyoto Protocol when it runs out in 2012. Here are some ...

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 ...

Over 160 nations, including the U.S., signed the UN-brokered protocol, but only 30 countries have since ratified it, none of them industrialized. President Bush recently announced that the U.S. is ...

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 ...