Here’s a look at the Kyoto Protocol, an agreement reached in Kyoto, Japan, in 1997, mandating that industrialized nations cut their greenhouse gas emissions. 192 parties have ratified the protocol ...

Japan’s announcement last week that it would not renew its commitment to the Kyoto Protocol does not necessarily kill the international climate negotiations, argues Andrew Light. A woman hands out ...

NORFOLK, Va. — Twenty-five years ago, the front page of a newspaper in Kyoto, Japan read “U.S. ready to compromise.” It was one of the biggest moments in the global fight against climate change. Back ...

At Lincoln Center Theater, a new play from the makers of “The Jungle” tries to dramatize the negotiations that led to the Kyoto Protocol. By Laura Collins-Hughes A new play from the writers of “The ...

The Kyoto Protocol, the world’s only legal agreement to fight global warming, survived Copenhagen but its future remains very much in doubt. The treaty, which binds 37 nations to emissions cuts, is ...

Amid the tolling of church bells and the joyous shouts of aspiring bureaucrats, the Kyoto Protocol was adopted in December 1997 under the auspices of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate ...

The Kyoto Protocol went into force a full 15 years ago today—and yet, the climate crisis is more urgent than ever. On Sunday, 15 years will have passed since the Kyoto Protocol was ratified on ...

Canada has abandoned the Kyoto Protocol on climate change as it bids to protect the third largest oil reserves in the world. Environment minister Peter Kent said Canada was invoking the legal right to ...

More than seven years after its inception, the Kyoto Protocol is finally up and running. From Wednesday 16 February, countries throughout the world must make good their promise to cut greenhouse-gas ...

As Russia decides to back the Kyoto protocol, BBC News looks at the agreement which many say is the best hope for curbing the gas emissions thought partly responsible for the warming of the planet.