Maybe international treaties do send perfectly good jobs overseas after all; it’s just that these treaties do so by regulating commerce at home rather than facilitating it abroad. The Kyoto ...

Countries that ratify the Kyoto Protocol agreed to reduce emissions of six greenhouse gases that contribute to global warming: carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, sulfur hexafluoride, HFCs ...

Negotiators from nearly 200 countries agreed on a deal that sets the world on a path to sign a new climate treaty by 2015 to replace the first Kyoto Protocol, which expires at the end of next year.

Blocs of countries including the Alliance of Small Island States, Least Developed Countries, and the African Group, which represent “100 countries and 1.4 billion people who are highly ...

Buenos Aires—The Kyoto Protocol is dead. There will be no further global treaties that set binding limits on the emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG) after Kyoto runs out in 2012. Under the Kyoto ...

Kyoto Protocol Highlights. February 16, 2005 12:00 AM ET. ... · Countries can also compensate for their emissions by helping developing nations develop less polluting energy sources.

Kyoto: A numbers game. The protocol includes a list of the 34 most industrially developed countries, including Canada, of course, and their estimated 1990 emissions of greenhouse gases. Countries ...

The 1997 Kyoto protocol calls for industrialized countries to cut their collective emissions of six key greenhouse gases to 5.2 percent below the 1990 level by 2012 in an effort to slow global ...

A woman hands out names of countries to participants at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Cancun, Mexico, on December 2, 2010. Japan announced at one of the opening plenary sessions ...

An overwhelming majority of countries at the U.N. climate conference in Copenhagen want the continuation of the Kyoto Protocol, the head of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change said Friday.

The Kyoto Protocol took effect today, marking the culmination of seven years of international efforts to curb industrial emissions of "greenhouse gases" and reduce the risk of climate change. The ...