While some have suggested that the Kyoto Protocol should continue to a second commitment period and be tied to a new agreement based on the Copenhagen Accord, Minamikawa made it clear in an ...

Has Japan Killed the Kyoto Protocol? Even If It Has There’s Still Hope for a Climate Agreement. Japan’s announcement last week that it would not renew its commitment to the Kyoto Protocol does ...

The intention was to set out a new commitment phase between January 1, 2013 and December 31, 2020 but it never received the 144 out of 192 acceptances required from the parties signed up to Kyoto.

Technical structures set up by the Kyoto Protocol would live on even if nations didn't adopt new commitments under the treaty. But by now, the pact governs less than 20 percent of global emissions.

The proposal to facilitate negotiations regarding the second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol was released on December 1 for discussion, and these issues are due to be resolved this week.

Canada, joined by Japan and Russia, said last year it will not accept new Kyoto commitments, but withdrawing from the accord is another setback to the treaty concluded with much fanfare in 1997.

In 2011, Canada withdrew from the Kyoto Protocol, but by the end of the first commitment period in 2012, ... In rejecting the Kyoto Protocol, which 178 other nations had accepted, ...

For Canada, the cost of either meeting its commitments under the Kyoto Protocol, or failing to do so, was too much to bear. On Monday, the country became the first signatory of the landmark ...

It was the best environmental event for years when the Kyoto protocol to counter global warming came into force last week. But there were also reminders from prominent UN leaders and scientists ...

Chinese authorities are upset about efforts by some developed nations to kill the Kyoto Protocol at the United Nations-sponsored Copenhagen climate change conference, China's special envoy on ...

Canada confirmed Friday that it will not take on a target under an extension of the Kyoto Protocol following the completion of the first commitment period, 2008-2012. Given that Canada is likely ...