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    The Kyoto Protocol is an international agreement that commits countries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. It recognizes that developed countries are primarily responsible for the current high levels of emissions due to over 150 years of industrial activity. The protocol places a heavier burden on developed nations to cut emissions of carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, hydrofluorocarbons, perfluorocarbons, and sulfur hexafluoride. While some countries are on track to meet their Kyoto targets, many major nations like Canada, Germany, and Japan are off course to meet their obligations. The Kyoto Protocol has had mixed success, with some emission reductions achieved but a 5% cut being a small step towards addressing climate change.

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    The Kyoto Protocol is an international agreement that commits countries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. It recognizes that developed countries are primarily responsible for the current high levels of emissions due to over 150 years of industrial activity. The protocol places a heavier burden on developed nations to cut emissions of carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, hydrofluorocarbons, perfluorocarbons, and sulfur hexafluoride. While some countries are on track to meet their Kyoto targets, many major nations like Canada, Germany, and Japan are off course to meet their obligations. The Kyoto Protocol has had mixed success, with some emission reductions achieved but a 5% cut being a small step towards addressing climate change.

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    The Kyoto Protocol is an international agreement that commits countries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. It recognizes that developed countries are primarily responsible for the current high levels of emissions due to over 150 years of industrial activity. The protocol places a heavier burden on developed nations to cut emissions of carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, hydrofluorocarbons, perfluorocarbons, and sulfur hexafluoride. While some countries are on track to meet their Kyoto targets, many major nations like Canada, Germany, and Japan are off course to meet their obligations. The Kyoto Protocol has had mixed success, with some emission reductions achieved but a 5% cut being a small step towards addressing climate change.

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    The Kyoto Protocol is an international agreement that commits countries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. It recognizes that developed countries are primarily responsible for the current high levels of emissions due to over 150 years of industrial activity. The protocol places a heavier burden on developed nations to cut emissions of carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, hydrofluorocarbons, perfluorocarbons, and sulfur hexafluoride. While some countries are on track to meet their Kyoto targets, many major nations like Canada, Germany, and Japan are off course to meet their obligations. The Kyoto Protocol has had mixed success, with some emission reductions achieved but a 5% cut being a small step towards addressing climate change.

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    ATTIYA REHMAN

    Kyoto Protocol
    What is it? The Kyoto Protocol is an international agreement linked to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, which commits its Parties by setting internationally binding emission reduction targets. Recognizing that developed countries are principally responsible for the current high levels of GHG emissions in the atmosphere as a result of more than 150 years of industrial activity, the Protocol places a heavier burden on developed nations under the principle of "common but differentiated responsibilities." Why was it created? The Kyoto Protocol was adopted in Kyoto, Japan, on 11 December 1997 and entered into force on 16 February 2005. The reason for the lengthy time span between the terms of agreement being settled upon and the protocol being engaged was due to terms of Kyoto requiring at least 55 parties to ratify the agreement and for the total of those parties emissions to be at least 55% of global production of greenhouse gases. The clock is ticking. Every year we are releasing almost 7 billion tonnes of carbon into the atmosphere - carbon that had lain buried since the days of the dinosaurs. It will remain in the atmosphere for around a century, raising the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and trapping more of the sun's heat.

    Before the industrial age, the CO2 level was steady at around 280 parts per million. When the Kyoto protocol was drawn up in 1997, the CO2 level had reached at 368 ppm. Im 2004, it hit 379 ppm.

    Figures released by the UN last month suggest the world is on track to meet its Kyoto targets for greenhouse gases. Countries in Kyoto Protocol have committed to cut emissions of not only carbon dioxide, but of also other greenhouse gases, being:

    Methane (CH4) Nitrous oxide (N2O) Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) Perfluorocarbons (PFCs) Sulphur hexafluoride (SF6)

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    India and China, which have ratified the Kyoto protocol, are not obligated to reduce greenhouse gas production at the moment as they are developing countries. Impacts: Among industrialised nations, 16 are on target to meet their Kyoto obligations, including France, the UK, Greece and Hungary, the UN said. Some 20 countries are off-course, including Canada, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, New Zealand and Spain. Nations that miss their Kyoto target in 2012 will incur a penalty of an additional third added to whatever cut they agree under a new treaty in Copenhagen. Has Kyoto worked? "In terms of emission reductions achieved, the answer would be no," De Boer said. "A 5% cut is a pretty small step on what will be a long and arduous journey. On the other hand, Kyoto has had great success in putting an architecture in place.

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