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GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE TREATY: SUMMARY OF THE KYOTO PROTOCOL (CRS Report for Congress)

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Release Date Revised June 23, 1999
Report Number 98-2
Authors Susan R. Fletcher, Environment and Natural Resources Policy Division
Source Agency Congressional Research Service
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Summary:

Negotiations on the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change were completed December 11, 1997, committing the industrialized nations to specified, legally binding targets for emissions of six greenhouse gases. The treaty opened for signature on March 16, 1998. The United States signed the Protocol on November 12, 1998.