Convention of Climate Change and Kyoto Protocol of 1997

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Convention of Climate Change and Kyoto Protocol
of 1997
A.
-An International Protocol drafted in 1997 at the
United Nations Conference on Framework Convention
on Climate Change. -The Convention on Climate
Change was drafted in 1992 and focused on
launching national strategies for addressing
greenhouse gas emissions and adapting to expected
impacts, including the financial and
technological support of developing countries.

• Jeff Butler
• Period 4

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Its Function and Regulatory Agency
B. C.

• The Protocol is intended to achieve stabilization
  of greenhouse gas concentrations in the
  atmosphere at a level that would prevent
  dangerous anthropogenic interference with the
  climate system.
• It legally establishes the binding commitments
  for the reduction of 4 greenhouse gases carbon
  dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and sulphur
  hexaflouride in all participating countries.
• It also focuses on minimizing impacts on
  Developing Countries by establishing an adaption
  fund for climate change.
• The United States is one of two countries that
  did not ratify the Kyoto Protocol.
• The protocol was drafted in 1997 and came into
  affect in February of 2005.
• The agency responsible for the regulation of the
  Kyoto Protocol is the United Nations. However the
  protocol is regulated very loosely.