Kyoto Protocol

The Kyoto Protocol is an international agreement standing on its own, and requiring separate ratification by governments, but linked to the UNFCCC.

The Kyoto Protocol, among other things, sets binding targets for the reduction of greenhouse-gas emissions (see Annex B) by industrialized countries (Annex I countries).

(UNFCCC glossary, 17 August 2007)

Parties to the Protocol have two different ways to reach their emission reduction target :

• to develop and to implement a national programme aiming at mitigating GHG emissions
• or to resort to the flexible mechanisms of the Protocol.

See also : Kyoto GHGs | Kyoto sectors | Kyoto commitment period

Documents : Kyoto protocol and ratification list

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