The Kyoto Protocol was an international treaty which extended the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change that commits state parties to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, based on the
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The Paris Agreement is an international treaty on climate change that was signed in 2016. The treaty covers climate change mitigation, adaptation, and finance. The Paris Agreement was negotiated by 19
Kyoto Protocol
…UNFCCC Climate Change Conferences on measures to be taken after the second commitment period ended in 2020. This resulted in the 2015 adoption of the Paris Agreement, which is a separate instrument under the UNFCCC rather than an amendment of the Kyoto Protocol. 1992 – The UN Conference on the Environment and…
Heads of delegations at the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris
Signing by John Kerry in United Nations General Assembly Hall for the United States
The Indian prime minister, Narendra Modi greeting the president of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff, in background Portuguese prime minister António Costa at the COP21 Summit on 30 November 2015