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 ...

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 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 ...

Back in 1997, President Bill Clinton signed on to the goals and processes of the Kyoto Protocol, which commits signatory countries to reduce greenhouse gases in amounts sufficient to prevent dangerous ...

Reading the climate-change news in recent weeks, one might wonder who won the last election. This is not how it was supposed to be. Among all the things that President Bush did to infuriate ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...