Question

Kyoto Protocol was signed by member countries at Kyoto (Japan) in :
1. 1995
2. 1997
3. 1999
4. 2003

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 2 : 1997

The correct answer is 1997.

• In 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the 11th session of the Meeting of the Parties to the 1997 Kyoto Protocol (CMP 11).
• It was concluded and established legally binding obligations for developed countries to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions.
• Its goal is to fight global warming by reducing greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere to “a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system”.
• Kyoto protocol aimed to cut emissions of greenhouse gases across the developed world by about 5% by 2012 compared with 1990 levels.

• India ratified Kyoto Protocol in 2002.
• The Kyoto Protocol came into force in February 2005.
• There are currently 192 Parties in Kyoto Protocol.
• Canada withdrew its name from the Kyoto protocol in 2012.
• Kyoto Protocol is the only global treaty with binding limits on GHG emissions.