Under the Kyoto protocol the Netherlands has to reduce its greenhouse emissions by an average of 6 percent a year relative to 1990 in the period 2008-2012. The emissions in the base year 1990 totalled ...

Unlike the Rome Statute of the ICC, the 1997 Kyoto Protocol to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change has 191 state parties, including all but four UN member states. The Kyoto Protocol was ...

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The Kyoto protocol, a global agreement signed in the Japanese city in 1997 with an aim to reduce carbon emissions, seeks to reward developing nations for adopting climate-friendly measures while ...