Proper noun
Kyoto Protocol
(international law) The Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change: an amendment to the international treaty on climate change, assigning mandatory targets for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions to signatory nations.
To put that into some perspective, when Bill Clinton and Al Gore had first taken the idea of the Kyoto Protocol up to the Congress, the United States Senate voted it down 95 to nothing. Christine Todd Whitman
We think that the Kyoto protocol is a necessary document, necessary process. I am convinced that we will agree to disagree about substance. Göran Persson
The U.S. withdrawal from the Kyoto protocol endangers the entire process. Laurent Fabius
The seas need their own Kyoto Protocol. Enric Sala
2002 Russia and Canada ratify the Kyoto Protocol to the UNFCCC bringing the treaty into effect on 16 February 2005. Source: Internet
1997 In December the parties conclude the Kyoto Protocol in Kyoto, Japan, in which they agree to the broad outlines of emissions targets. Source: Internet