Kyoto Protocol definition

Kyoto Protocol means the protocol to the UNFCCC adopted at the Third Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC in Kyoto, Japan on 11 December 1997 as may be amended;
Kyoto Protocol. Means the protocol to the UNFCCC adopted at the third conference of the parties to the UNFCCC in Kyoto, Japan, on December 11, 1997.
Kyoto Protocol means the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), as amended by the Doha Amendment to that Protocol, agreed on 8 December 2012 in Doha;

Examples of Kyoto Protocol in a sentence

  • The key line is just one of many deft legal maneuvers strewn throughout the Cancun Agreements -- and particularly in sections dealing with the Kyoto Protocol -- that helped to satisfy 193 countries with the exception of Bolivia last week.

  • Xxxxxxxxx Xxx, head of Canada's Green Party described the Kyoto Protocol as the only legally binding instrument available for ensuring that nations reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and the climate can't afford for it to fall victim to economic concerns.

  • In 1998, the United States became a signatory to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (Kyoto Protocol).

  • A provision ensuring that industrialized countries can wiggle out of the Kyoto Protocol after 2012 is hidden in plain view of a new climate change agreement established in Cancun, Mexico, last week.

  • In 2002, Xxxxxxxxx Xxxx withdrew the United States' support for the Kyoto Protocol.


More Definitions of Kyoto Protocol

Kyoto Protocol means the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change adopted on 11 December 1997 and as subsequently adjusted and amended;
Kyoto Protocol is an international agreement under which industrialized countries will reduce their collective emissions of greenhouse gases by 5.2% compared to the baseline year of 1990. The goal is to lower overall emissions of six (6) greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, sulfur hexafluoride, hydrofluorocarbons, and perfluorocarbons) averaged over the period of 2008-2012.
Kyoto Protocol means the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change adopted by consensus at the Third Session of the Conference of the Parties in December 1997.
Kyoto Protocol means the Kyoto Protocol to the Convention, as ratified by the Law on the Ratification of the Kyoto Protocol of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change;
Kyoto Protocol means the Kyoto Protocol to the UNFCCC, adopted 11 December 1997.